Can we discuss the possibility of abstract symbols to be used with emoji please?

[Mark E. Shoulson]

Sounds like a great goal.  You've made designs, made them available...  
See if people like using them, put them in the PUA, make apps that can 
encode them in messages, etc.  As with any writing system, once they 
become popular you can propose them for inclusion in Unicode.  That's 
the criterion and that's the order it happens in.  Usage comes first.

~mark

On 9/23/23 12:39, William_J_G Overington via Unicode wrote:
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> Gabriel Tellez wrote:
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> > You made those symbols yourself, no?
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> I thought of having such symbols, thought of designs for the symbols, 
> produced electronic images of the designs using the Affinity Designer 
> software program, suggested the code numbers so that they can be used. 
> They are Open Source in the hope that they will become used.
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> This research is at an early stage. I needed to start somewhere. The 
> symbols are now published and a method to apply them has been 
> suggested. Is it art? Is it technology? Is it useful? Can the symbols 
> convey meaning effectively, including through the language barrier? 
> Will someone study them as applied art?
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> Maybe one day the symbols and the meaning of each will become encoded 
> in The Unicode Standard. That will need the symbols to become widely 
> used by people other than the person who devised them.
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> Maybe one day they will be displayed at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art 
> in New York.
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> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/emoji_installation_at_MoMA.htm
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> There are some other symbols that I have devised, listed from the 
> following web page.
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> http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/mariposa_novel.htm
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> They too each have a code that I have assigned to them, so they can be 
> used now if people choose to use them.
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> Maybe other people will devise such abstract symbols and assign 
> meanings too. It would be interesting to observe if symbols by various 
> people can be used together, how various researchers interact.
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> William Overington
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> Saturday 23 March 2023
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