> In what character encoding standard, or extension, does ROBOT FACE appear?
Unicode has never been limited to what is in other character encoding standard or extensions, "official" or de facto. Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
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