Emotes
Mark E. Shoulson
mark at kli.org
Thu Aug 4 16:54:57 CDT 2022
The question wasn't about emoji or inline image content; it was about
"emotes", a technique of phrasing chat messages in third person instead
of first person. I have no idea what this has to do with Unicode, any
more than chat-forum conventions like spelling "you" as "u" or using
CAPITALS to shout with. That is, they're transmitted by means of
Unicode, but they're content and not form or protocol, and Unicode
doesn't dictate content.
~mark
On 8/4/22 17:07, Sławomir Osipiuk via Unicode wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 12:10 PM William_J_G Overington via Unicode
> <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:
>> Can we discuss emotes please?
>>
> Inline image content is very firmly outside the scope of Unicode and
> practically screams "higher-level protocol".
>
> We should not be inventing yet another markup and/or syntax for things
> that are solved problems. If you want to embed images in your text,
> use an <img> tag with a base64 data-URI or an external URL, as
> appropriate.
>
> The one legitimate issue is that maybe you want the syntax to be
> default-ignorable "for free" on platforms that don't support it and
> the existing unicode tag characters look mighty tempting. In that
> area, the Unicode Standard can be a little helpful by clarifying and
> formalizing the permitted use of tag characters for other protocols,
> but it should in no way be defining those protocols itself. Maybe
> declare U+E0010 through U+E001F private-use.
>
> That's about it. Unicode is for text. Even emoji as single characters
> are a pretty big stretch. Emoji ZWJ sequences even more so. I don't
> think we should be stretching any further.
>
> Sławomir Osipiuk
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