On 1 September 2015 at 17:37, Doug Ewell <d...@ewellic.org> wrote: > > As an alternative to this proposal that may provide more flexibility, I > propose adapting the Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers from U+1F3FB to > U+1F3FF to be valid for use following U+1F37A BEER MUG or U+1F37B > CLINKING BEER MUGS. > > This could be done by establishing a normative correlation between the > Fitzpatrick scale and the Standard Reference Method (SRM), Lovibond, > and/or European Brewery Convention (EBC) beer color scales > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_style#Appearance>. > > This mechanism would allow the entire spectrum of beer styles to be > depicted, instead of dividing beers arbitrarily into "light" and "dark," > in the same way (and for the same reason) that Unicode already supports > a variety of skin tones. > > For example, a Budweiser or similar lager could be represented as > πΊπ» <1F37A, 1F3FB>, while a Newcastle Brown Ale might be πΊπ½ > <1F37A, 1F3FD>. U+1F3FF could denote imperial stout or Baltic porter. > There might be a need to encode an additional "Type 0" color modifier to > extend the "light" end of the scale, such as for non-alcoholic brews, or > for Coors Light.
Yet more blatant anti-ginger discrimination. Yet another reason to encode a ginger emoji modifier at the earliest opportunity (see https://www.change.org/p/apple-redheads-should-have-emoji-too), which could then be applied to U+1F37A BEER MUG in order to depict ginger beer. Andrew