Shervin Afshar <shervinafshar at gmail dot com> wrote: >> There is no longer any requirement that the robot faces and >> burritos appear first in any sort of industry character set >> extension, with which Unicode is then obliged to maintain >> compatibility. > > Only if you don't consider existing usage and popular requests as > requirement and precedence; for example Gmail had Robot Face for a > long time.
I said there was no longer a requirement *that the items appear first in an industry character set extension*, right? In what character encoding standard, or extension, does ROBOT FACE appear? "Gmail has it" is not a character encoding standard. Neither is "People want to see it." "Most popularly requested," as a criterion for adding a character, is absolutely new to Unicode. Earlier I wrote privately to a Unicode officer about whether PERSON TAKING SELFIE and GIRL TWERKING and PERSON DUMPING ICE BUCKET OVER HEAD would be ephemeral enough, and got no reply. (What, you've forgotten the ice-bucket craze already? That's exactly why "most popular at the moment" wasn't supposed to be a criterion.) -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, USA | http://ewellic.org _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list [email protected] http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
