> The format that I am suggesting would allow the image for a non-standard > emoji character to be included in a text message, with the image located at > the correct place in the text.
A more common occurrence is the need to include a non-standard character in a text message, be it a ski piste symbol or an obscure CJK ideogram. Have you thought of embedding TrueType in Unicode? Leo On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:38 AM, William_J_G Overington <[email protected]> wrote: > Responding to Mark E. Shoulson: > > >> As was pointed out to me, essentially what you are saying is you reject my >> premise that one size does not fit all. > > > Well, I do not know where that came from, but no, I do not reject that > premise. There is plain text, there is HTML, there is XML. > > > HTML is good for web pages. > > > Plain text is, amongst other applications, good for text messages. > > > The format that I am suggesting would allow the image for a non-standard > emoji character to be included in a text message, with the image located at > the correct place in the text. > > > I have not purported that it become the only format for transmitting images. > > >> You would prefer *everything* be in plain text, "so you wouldn't have to use >> other formats for it." You're essentially converting plain text into THE >> format for everything. > > > No. Use the best format for the task that is being carried out. I am > enthusiastic that as much as possible can be done in open source formats > rather than an end user of computing equipment needing to rely on expensive > propriety software packages with proprietary file formats that cannot be > accessed without expensive software. > > >> If you really believe one size should fit all in this way, ... > > > But I don't. > > > Just because I opine that plain text is best for some applications and I have > suggested a format that would allow a graphic to be included directly in a > plain text file does not mean that I opine that everything should be plain > text. > > > For example, I use HTML files, gif files, png files, pdf files, wav files, > TTF files as appropriate. > > > http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/library.htm > > > http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/spec0001.htm > > > http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/song1018.htm > > > http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/song1021.htm > > > I have embedded a wav file in a pdf and published the result on the web. > > > http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/the_mobile_art_shop.pdf > > > Suppose that a plain text file is to include just one non-standard emoji > graphic. How would that be done otherwise than by the format that I am > suggesting? > > > What if there were three such non-standard emoji graphics needed in the plain > text file, the second graphic being used twice. How would that be done > otherwise than by the format that I am suggesting? > > > William Overington > > > 29 May 2015 > > > >
