William Overington wrote: > > I decided that trying to design emoji for 'I' and for 'You' seemed > interesting so I decided to have a go at designing some. > > However pictures of people with arrows seemed to be ambiguous in > meaning and also they seemed to need to be too detailed for rendering > in mobile telephone messages and in many situations in web pages and > emails generally. So eventually I decided that abstract designs would > be a good solution to the problem. >
I also played with a similar idea, which requires a new GSUB LookupType, let’s call it 9: Reader-dependent substitution. The idea is that the reader of the text will see another glyph when he/she is the author of the text. For example if you use the codepoint for for ME, all other readers see the glpyh for YOU and vice versa. This is for example usable in instant messaging and social networking services. In the attachment you find some ideas for the following emoji IDEOGRAM FOR ME / IDEOGRAM FOR YOU IDEOGRAM FOR TWO OF US / IDEOGRAM FOR YOU TWO IDEOGRAM FOR WE ALL / IDEOGRAM FOR YOU ALL IDEOGRAM FOR ME AND ANOTHER PERSON / IDEOGRAM FOR YOU AND ANOTHER PERSON IDEOGRAM FOR ME AND MULTIPLE OTHER PERSONS / IDEOGRAM FOR YOU AND MULTIPLE OTHER PERSONS IDEOGRAM FOR YOU AND ME (the counterpart has no own codepoint, but is mirrored, as you may arrange other emoji to the left or right) The following emoji may look equal independent of the reader: IDEOGRAM FOR ANOTHER PERSON IDEOGRAM FOR TWO OTHER PERSONS IDEOGRAM FOR MULTIPLE OTHER PERSONS The rendering engine requires a flag if the user is the author or not. I think it would be possible to implement. What about this idea? Regards, Marius Spix
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