Failure on Japanese dolls emoji

[Ryusei Yamaguchi]

Thank you, Alolita :)
Ryusei

On 2016/03/04 10:14, Alolita Sharma wrote:
> Hi Ryusei,
>
> I provided your useful feedback to the Emoji design team at Twitter and
> they will update the twemoji for Japanese dolls.
> Thanks for providing excellent examples in your post.
>
> Best,
> Alolita
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Ryusei Yamaguchi <mandel59 at gmail.com
> <mailto:mandel59 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 2016/03/04 7:59, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:
>>     On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Ryusei Yamaguchi<mandel59 at gmail.com> <mailto:mandel59 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>     Hello, Unicode
>>>
>>>     3rd March is hina-matsuri (雛祭り; Doll's Day) in Japan, and there is an emoji for it: Japanese Dolls. I wrote an article on failures of that emoji:http://mandel59.hateblo.jp/entry/2016/03/04/041437
>>>
>>>     Some vendors ship Japanese Dolls emoji that don't seem to be hina-matsuri dolls. I wish difficulty of implementation of culture-dependent emoji be given wider publicity by this post.
>>     But, the name of the  emoji is "JAPANESE DOLLS", not hina-matsuri, so
>>     you are expecting a particular visual, which is not promised anywhere.
>>
>>     Is a bit like if I complained that some "MOUNTAIN" emojis are wrong
>>     because they don't look like Monte Bianco.
>>
>>     Cheers
>
>     JAPANESE DOLLS in Unicode is collected from the character sets of
>     KDDI and SoftBank, Japanese telecom companies, and the emoji is
>     named as 雛祭り or ひな祭り (both are hina-matsuri) in these specs.
>     Here is a capture of Chart with FPDAM8 data and glyphs
>     <https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unicode.org%2F%7Escherer%2Femoji4unicode%2Fsnapshot%2Femojidata.pdf>
>     via
>     <https://sites.google.com/site/unicodesymbols/Home/emoji-symbols>https://sites.google.com/site/unicodesymbols/Home/emoji-symbols
>
>
>     And the NamesList.txt of Unicode Character Database gives the
>     description: Japanese Hinamatsuri or girls' doll festival. Aren't
>     they the authorities to let the emoji look like hina-matsuri?
>
>     Ryusei
>
>