The consortium is in no position to enhance protocols *itself* for exchanging images. That's firmly in other groups' hands. We can try to noodge them a bit, but what *will* make a difference is when the *vendors* of sticker solutions put pressure on the different groups responsible for the protocols to provide interoperability for images. Because there is a lot of growth in sticker solutions, I would expect there to be more such pressure. And even so, I expect it will take those some time to be deployed.
We've said what our longer-term position is, and I think we all pretty much agree with that; exchanging images is much more flexible. However, we do have strong short-term pressure to show that we are responsive and responsible in adding emoji. And our adding a reasonable number of emoji per year is not going to stop Line or Skype from adding stickers! There are a few possible scenarios, and it's hard to predict the results. It could be that emoji are largely supplanted by stickers in 5 years; could be 10; could be that they both coexist indefinitely. I have no 🔮, and neither does anyone else... Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Peter Constable <[email protected]> wrote: > And yet UTC devotes lots of effort (with an entire subcommittee) to > encode more emoji as characters, but no effort toward any preferred longer > term solution not based on characters. > > > > > > Peter > > > > *From:* Unicode [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Shervin > Afshar > *Sent:* Thursday, May 14, 2015 2:27 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Tag characters > > > > Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the > requirements of > section 8 Longer Term Solutions > > > > IMO, the industry preferred longer term solution (which is also discussed > in that section with few existing examples) for emoji, is not going to be > based on characters. > > > > > ↪ Shervin > > > > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:40 PM, William_J_G Overington < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > What else would be possible if the same sort of technique were applied > to another base character? > > > Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the > requirements of > > section 8 Longer Term Solutions > > of > > http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2.html > > ? > > > Both colour pixel map and colour OpenType vector font solutions would be > possible. > > > Colour voxel map and colour vector 3d solids solutions are worth thinking > about too as fun coding thought experiments that could possibly lead to > useful practical results. > > > > > William Overington > > > 14 May 2015 > > >
