Thoughts on Emoji Selection Process

[Julian Wels via Unicode]

I mean I'd love to have this discussion, and maybe you could even turn me
around to your side of this argument if the current way of Emoji
development wouldn't be such a hot mess. My initial mail essentially said:
"Stop adding random stuff, until you find a way to streamline your
process." (in an abstract sense). So I'm just generally against
uncontrolled development.

If the ESC were to say: "We committed ourselves to add around 10 Emojis
each year, representing another culture." then this would be amazing. But
it appears that right now they'd say: "We committed ourselves to embrace
different cultures with Emoji.", then add 50 western Emoji, 36 Indian, and
12 African and then never speak of it again.

So for me, it's all about controlled development that leaves us with a
clean and well-organized set of Emojis. Right now it shows that can't have
that due to a lack of communication and ambitions on the part of the ESC.

Julian ��

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 1:26 PM Andre Schappo via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

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> On 10 Aug 2018, at 21:33, Julian Wels via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org>
> wrote:
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> Cultural Iconography
> Another thing that is is worrisome is the proposed addition of a
> traditional Indian piece of clothing in 12.0. This is extremely specific to
> one culture, and I'm not sure if we want to open the gate for: "Which
> culture is included in Unicode and which is not?". Maybe we want that!
> Maybe we don't. But I think there should at least be a discussion about
> additions that carry such consequences.
> I know that there are tons of Chinese symbols in there already, but even
> the selection-factors on the Unicode-website state, that just because there
> is a lot of stuff in there from former versions, should not be a basis of
> justification for future additions. For instance, the Tokyo Tower-Emoji
> does not justify the Eiffel Tower-Emoji. [link]
> <https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#Faulty_Comparison>
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> Unicode is an essential building block for software internationalisation.
> I consider including cultural icon emoji in Unicode to be an essential part
> of internationalisation. The more cultures that are included the better.
> Actually I think a specific aim of ESC could be, in the long term, to
> encompass all cultures. ESC could encourage cultural icon emoji submissions.
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> André Schappo
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