<!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 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans-webfont; 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: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Hi</div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans-webfont; 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: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans-webfont; 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: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">James Kass wrote as follows.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans-webfont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans-webfont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); display: inline; float: none; 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; word-spacing: 0px;">Written communication is of, by, and for human beings.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wow, nominative, genitive, ablative and dative all in one short sentence.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Can you express that sentence with emoji?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Maybe if these abstract emoji were encoded in regular Unicode one could encode that sentence and lots of other sentences too.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/</a>~ngo/abstract_emoji.htm<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yet are abstract emoji acceptable to Unicode Inc. for encoding into The Unicode Standard?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Best regards,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">William Overington<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tuesday 22 December 2020</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: OpenSans-webfont; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> </p></div></body></html>