On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 02:10, Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > > Unicode isn't here to encode cool new ideas that would be cool and > new. It's here for writing what people already do.
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18141r2-emoji-colors.pdf "Add 14 colored emoji characters for decorative and/or descriptive uses. These may be used to indicate that an emoji has a different color." No evidence has been provided that anybody is currently using colored blobs for this purpose (in fact emoji users have explicitly rejected this method for indicating emoji color: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18208-white-wine-rgi.pdf), just an assertion that it would be a good idea if emoji users could add a colored swatch to an existing emoji to indicate what color they want it to represent (note that the colored characters do not change the color of the emoji they are attached to [before or after, depending upon whether you are speaking French or English dialect of emoji], they are just intended as a visual indication of what colour you wish the emoji was). This proposal to add 14 additional colored circles, squares and hearts is a perfect example of a cool new idea for something that the authors think would be really useful, but for which there is no evidence of existing use. The UTC should have rejected it as out of scope, but we all know that rules and procedures do not apply to the Emoji Subcommittee, so in fact this cool new idea will be included in Unicode 12 in March. Andrew