<!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="auto" style="unicode-bidi: embed;"><style>p{margin:0}</style>Hi<br style=""><br style="">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?<br style=""><br style="">Good fun to try, but there is a Unicode question underlying this suggestion.<br style=""><br style="">Can the ZWJ LARGE GREEN SQUARE sequence to get a green version be applied to an emoji sequence that already is a ZWJ sequence?<br style=""><br style="">So for green emoji astronauts, if they can be encoded, there would be five characters in the sequence for each of them.<div><p><br style=""></p><p>Yet where does the LARGE GREEN SQUARE character go in the sequence please?</p><p><br></p><p>It seems to be that it could be third or fifth depending upon how one looks at it.</p><p><br></p><p>If the astronaut sequence is regarded as a preset block, then the ZWJ LARGE GREEN SQUARE sequence is added at the end.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><br style="">Also, what rgb colour values for green?<br style="">.<br style="">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.</div><div><p><br style=""></p><p>Would r=0, g=204, b=0 be a good choice?</p><p><br></p>Best regards,<br style=""><br style="">William Overington<br style=""><br style="">Friday 30 July 2021<br style=""><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 2em; border-left:2px solid #00ADE5; white-space: pre-wrap "><br><br>------ Original Message ------<br>From: "abrahamgross--- via Unicode" <unicode@corp.unicode.org><br>To: unicode@corp.unicode.org<br>Sent: Thursday, 2021 Jul 29 At 20:41<br>Subject: Re: Please provide green skin-color for emojis"<br><br>Unicode already provides a way to have colored emojis. <br>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#color">http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#color</a><br>
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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<br>
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