<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><div class="auto-created-dir-div" dir="ltr" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style><div>I have yesterday sent formal comment on the proposal to the Unicode Technical Committee.</div><p><br></p><p>Except for the final sentence and the change of date, the formal comment is the same text as in my original post.</p><p><br></p><p>The final sentence of the formal comment is as follows.</p><p><br></p><p><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">So could there be three new emoji for these hand gestures rather than just the two in the proposal please?</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><br></span><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">William Overington</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><br></span><span style="display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">Wednesday 23 September 2020</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br></p><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 2em; border-left:2px solid #00ADE5; white-space: pre-wrap "><br><br>------ Original Message ------<br>From: "wjgo_10009--- via Unicode" <unicode@unicode.org><br>To: unicode@unicode.org<br>Sent: Friday, 2020 Sep 18 At 19:10<br>Subject: L2/20-213 Hand with palm facing up and Hand with palm facing down for Unicode 14.0<br><br>I refer to the following document.<br><br/><br><br/><a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20213-palms-up-down-emoji.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20213-palms-up-down-emoji.pdf</a><br><br/><br><br/>Hand with palm facing up and Hand with palm facing down for Unicode 14.0<br><br/><br><br/>The meaning of the proposed emoji 'Hand with palm facing down' is fine.<br><br/><br><br/>My own experience is that this is quite formal.<br><br/><br><br/>For example, as in the following.<br><br/><br><br/>“Good evening ma’am, may I have the pleasure of this dance?” and offers his right hand, palm down, as if in a formal ballroom setting.<br><br/><br><br/>The meaning of the proposed emoji 'Hand with palm facing up' as "drop, go away, drop it, put down" does not correspond with my own personal experience, though the concept mentioned later in the document of "Palm up can indicate a lack of knowledge" does in the sense of "Who knows!", though I do not understand quite what "Palm up can indicate a lack of knowledge cross-linguistically" means. But my lack of experience of the meanings stated in the document is no reason whatsoever not to encode the proposed meanings for that hand gesture.<br><br/><br><br/>However, I am thinking that the proposed 'Hand with palm facing up' could be renamed as 'Hand with palm facing up with fingers upward' and a third emoji 'Hand with palm facing up with fingers downward' added.<br><br/><br><br/>For me, 'Hand with palm facing up with fingers downward' is a common gesture, such as inviting a visitor to home or office (in antepandemicum times and hopefully in the future) to sit down and make himself or herself comfortable, or to indicate "after you" when two lanes of road traffic are merging at road works, or "please proceed" when letting a car from a side road into queued road traffic. The custom being that the other driver raises his or her hand in acknowledgement and thanks.<br><br/><br><br/>For another example, going into a restaurant (in antepandemicum times and hopefully in the future) early evening when all of the trade at that time of day appears to be take-aways, and asking if one can have a sit down meal at present (as one is going direct from work to an evening institute meeting) and the manager indicating 'yes certainly' in speech and by a palm up fingers downward gesture towards the empty seated area of the restaurant.<br><br/><br><br/>So should there be three new emoji for these hand gestures rather than just the two in the proposal?<br><br/><br><br/>William Overington<br><br/><br><br/>Friday 18 September 2020<br><br/><br><br/><br><br/></blockquote></div></body></html>