Here is an issue that admittedly is unsignificant when compared to on-going world events, but I need to work on some documents to be finished these days.
Some transport emoji pairs appear to have been encoded at the same time (6.0), but have their glyphs swapped in some current font(s). These include: U+1F68C BUS U+1F68D ONCOMING BUS U+1F692 FIRE ENGINE U+1F6F1 ONCOMING FIRE ENGINE U+1F693 POLICE CAR U+1F694 ONCOMING POLICE CAR U+1F695 TAXI U+1F696 ONCOMING TAXI U+1F697 AUTOMOBILE U+1F698 ONCOMING AUTOMOBILE While on cellphones, the first are side views (source: iemoji.com), the latter ones are conformant front views. By contrast, web browsers on Windows use a font or fonts that show the first in front view, while the others are missing. I note that both are “fully conformant” to the Standard, so far as the name is a mere identifier, not a descriptor, and the glyphs in the charts have little of a prescription. At least, whenever the name is generic as of perspective, any designer of somewhat related glyphs can claim conformance, and Unicode has to endorse the resulting flaw. I note, too, that “oncoming” is often misunderstood as carrying a connotation of dynamics, whereas in reality, many vehicles are more iconic in front view, while others stand more out in side view. Was it imaginable to be precise and call them simply: U+1F68C BUS SIDE VIEW U+1F68D BUS FRONT VIEW U+1F692 FIRE ENGINE SIDE VIEW U+1F6F1 FIRE ENGINE FRONT VIEW U+1F693 POLICE CAR SIDE VIEW U+1F694 POLICE CAR FRONT VIEW U+1F695 TAXI SIDE VIEW U+1F696 TAXI FRONT VIEW U+1F697 AUTOMOBILE SIDE VIEW U+1F698 AUTOMOBILE FRONT VIEW Or did the first ones already exist in both views, so that it was desirable to add one more character for each one of them to make sure to get front views? That would imply that fonts with the first in front view don’t need to support the second characters, treated as mere glyph variants. In any case we seem to have some drawbacks to choose from data interchange flaws and document rendering flaws. Does the original proposer or anybody else have any clues on how the set was intended, and how to fix the discrepancy? Regards, Marcel
