Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters)
Peter Constable
petercon at microsoft.com
Thu May 14 23:37:37 CDT 2015
Skype uses stickers, including animated stickers. Here’s the documented set:
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12330/what-is-the-full-list-of-emoticons
And if you search, you’ll find lots more “hidden” emoticons, like “(bartlett)”.
Peter
From: Shervin Afshar [mailto:shervinafshar at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 8:12 PM
To: Peter Constable
Cc: unicode at unicode.org
Subject: Future of Emoji? (was Re: Tag characters)
Peter,
This very topic was discussed in last meeting of the subcommittee and my impression is that there are plans to promote the use of embedded graphics (aka stickers) either through expansions to section 8 of TR51 or through some other means. It should also be noted that none of current members of Unicode seem to have a sticker-based implementation (with the exception of an experimental limited trial by Twitter[1]).
[1]: http://mashable.com/2015/04/16/twitter-star-wars-emoji/
↪ Shervin
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Peter Constable <petercon at microsoft.com<mailto:petercon at microsoft.com>> wrote:
And yet UTC devotes lots of effort (with an entire subcommittee) to encode more emoji as characters, but no effort toward any preferred longer term solution not based on characters.
Peter
From: Unicode [mailto:unicode-bounces at unicode.org<mailto:unicode-bounces at unicode.org>] On Behalf Of Shervin Afshar
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 2:27 PM
To: wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com<mailto:wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com>
Cc: unicode at unicode.org<mailto:unicode at unicode.org>
Subject: Re: Tag characters
Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the requirements of
section 8 Longer Term Solutions
IMO, the industry preferred longer term solution (which is also discussed in that section with few existing examples) for emoji, is not going to be based on characters.
↪ Shervin
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 1:40 PM, William_J_G Overington <wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com<mailto:wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com>> wrote:
> What else would be possible if the same sort of technique were applied to another base character?
Thinking about this further, could the technique be used to solve the requirements of
section 8 Longer Term Solutions
of
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-2.html
?
Both colour pixel map and colour OpenType vector font solutions would be possible.
Colour voxel map and colour vector 3d solids solutions are worth thinking about too as fun coding thought experiments that could possibly lead to useful practical results.
William Overington
14 May 2015
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