Please provide green skin-color for emojis"
William_J_G Overington
wjgo_10009 at btinternet.com
Fri Jul 30 05:34:39 CDT 2021
Hi
So, following two recent successful private initiatives to get
astronauts into space, can we get green male emoji astronauts and green
female emoji astronauts into space, maybe making a return trip via a
geostationary satellite?
Good fun to try, but there is a Unicode question underlying this
suggestion.
Can the ZWJ LARGE GREEN SQUARE sequence to get a green version be
applied to an emoji sequence that already is a ZWJ sequence?
So for green emoji astronauts, if they can be encoded, there would be
five characters in the sequence for each of them.
Yet where does the LARGE GREEN SQUARE character go in the sequence
please?
It seems to be that it could be third or fifth depending upon how one
looks at it.
If the astronaut sequence is regarded as a preset block, then the ZWJ
LARGE GREEN SQUARE sequence is added at the end.
If, however, the astronaut sequence is not regarded as a preset block,
the ZWJ LARGE GREEN SQUARE sequence is characters 2 and 3 in the total
sequence.
Also, what rgb colour values for green?
.
If an rgb colour is specified now, then maybe just maybe everybody will
do the same, but otherwise there would be various shades, possibly
causing confusion during interchange.
Would r=0, g=204, b=0 be a good choice?
Best regards,
William Overington
Friday 30 July 2021
------ Original Message ------
From: "abrahamgross--- via Unicode" <unicode at corp.unicode.org>
To: unicode at corp.unicode.org
Sent: Thursday, 2021 Jul 29 At 20:41
Subject: Re: Please provide green skin-color for emojis"
Unicode already provides a way to have colored emojis.
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#color
<http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#color>
Its just that fonts don't support it. but if colored people is important
to you, then edit an open source emoji font and provide colorful people
for anyone else interested
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