I just discovered the WAP Pictogram specification (WAP-213-WAPInterPic), last published in April 2001 and updated in November 2001.
- http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htm (requires OMA credentials) - http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/affiliates/wap/wap-213-wapinterpic-20010406-a.pdf It describes a way to reference locally stored graphics using the `pict` URL scheme in WML or XHTML: <img localsrc=“pict:///core/arrow/right” src=“http://www.pict.com/xx/rightArrow.wbmp” alt=“->” /> <object data=“pict:///time/season/winter”> <object data=”pict:///weather/snow”> <img src=“http://www.pict.com/xx/snowman.wbmp” alt=“snowman”/> </object> </object> Reading through section 7 Pictogram Set, it’s obvious that WAP pictograms have been unified with Japanese (i-mode) emojis upon their encoding in Unicode 6+. However, the mapping is not obvious in all cases and I think there are some pictograms that have been omitted / forgotten or could have better annotation, e.g.: - /emotion/{trapped,tutting,shine,smell,pullFace,shakenHeart} - /human/body/foot - /map/{policeStation,spa,zoo} - /sport/{sport,scuba} - /time/event{anniversary,holiday,newYearsDay} I can imagine a crudely equivalent Unicode emoji for almost all of them, but definitely not for Scuba Diving. I haven’t seen – or at least not recognized – a scuba gear, flipper, snorkel or diver in documentation of Japanese vendor sets. Is there a mapping file available at the Unicode website that I’ve missed? I haven’t found any reference or vendor-specific images, by the way, and if it wasn’t just used as an example domain anyway, pict.com seems now defunct.
