QID Emoji (was Re: Wireless Connection Symbol)

[James Kass]

On 2020-05-27 7:32 AM, David Starner wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 11:20 PM James Kass via Unicode
> <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>> On 2020-05-27 2:10 AM, Michael Everson via Unicode wrote:
>>> On 25 May 2020, at 19:34, Doug Ewell via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not all symbols for use in diagrams are necessarily candidates for plain-text encoding, although some certainly are and the bar is moving.
>>> No, and despite the utility of some symbols for scholarship or tech use, we get to have chipmunk-squirrel hybrids and an incomplete set of dinosaurs.
>>>
>>> Michael Everson
>> A dilemma which QID Emoji Tag Sequences would resolve.
>> https://www.unicode.org/review/pri408/
> In theory, but in practice, there are 700-some dinosaur species, and
> encoding them alongside a hundred thousand other emoji is just going
> to mean that nobody supports any of them.
>

In the short term, yes.  In the long term support will be driven by demand.

If enough users demand the ability to exchange an image of a 
basenji-doberman hybrid in plain-text, display support will be 
forthcoming.  If the demand isn't enough to stimulate the large 
corporate players, then third-party support will step in.  If there's no 
demand, it's moot.  But it's discoverable under the QID Emoji proposal 
regardless of demand level.

If approved, it's already supported as far as Unicode is concerned. 
Because it uses strings of already encoded characters which are already 
interchangeable.  Display issues and input methods have traditionally 
been considered outside the scope of The Standard.