Thank you, Alolita :)
Ryusei
On 2016/03/04 10:14, Alolita Sharma wrote:
Hi Ryusei,
I provided your useful feedback to the Emoji design team at Twitter and
they will update the twemoji for Japanese dolls.
Thanks for providing excellent examples in your post.
Best,
Alolita
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Ryusei Yamaguchi <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 2016/03/04 7:59, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Ryusei Yamaguchi<[email protected]>
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
Hello, Unicode
3rd March is hina-matsuri (雛祭り; Doll's Day) in Japan, and there is an emoji
for it: Japanese Dolls. I wrote an article on failures of that
emoji:http://mandel59.hateblo.jp/entry/2016/03/04/041437
Some vendors ship Japanese Dolls emoji that don't seem to be hina-matsuri
dolls. I wish difficulty of implementation of culture-dependent emoji be given
wider publicity by this post.
But, the name of the emoji is "JAPANESE DOLLS", not hina-matsuri, so
you are expecting a particular visual, which is not promised anywhere.
Is a bit like if I complained that some "MOUNTAIN" emojis are wrong
because they don't look like Monte Bianco.
Cheers
JAPANESE DOLLS in Unicode is collected from the character sets of
KDDI and SoftBank, Japanese telecom companies, and the emoji is
named as 雛祭り or ひな祭り (both are hina-matsuri) in these specs.
Here is a capture of Chart with FPDAM8 data and glyphs
<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicode.org%2F%7Escherer%2Femoji4unicode%2Fsnapshot%2Femojidata.pdf>
via
<https://sites.google.com/site/unicodesymbols/Home/emoji-symbols>https://sites.google.com/site/unicodesymbols/Home/emoji-symbols
And the NamesList.txt of Unicode Character Database gives the
description: Japanese Hinamatsuri or girls' doll festival. Aren't
they the authorities to let the emoji look like hina-matsuri?
Ryusei
