<!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>James Kass wrote:<div><p><br></p><p>> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">Anybody can use any Unicode string as a pointer into anyone's database without seeking Unicode's permission.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">At present, with a couple of people, emails are sent between me and them using</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">!123</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">to mean</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Good day.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">or its equivalent in the recipient's language of choice. It is just friendly.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A more rugged format is an integral sign followed by circled digits. Is it a sort of mathematics? Possibly, as it is expressing information in a way that the information can be manipulated.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">So, no problem.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">However, although I suggest the possibility of using, if Unicode Inc. were to formally encode it, the base character of the QID proposal followed by a TAG EXCLAMATION MARK followed by some TAG DIGITs followed by a CANCEL TAG, it seems to me that it would not be correct to implement it without such formality.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It is hard to say exactly why that is my opinion. I suppose that it is because the first one looks much like using hashtags, the second looks like mathematics, yet the third one looks c</span><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36); display: inline !important;">y-près (so near) what Unicode Inc. does with sequences such as for some flags that it would not be right to do so without formal Unicode approval.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"> </span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">What this means is that a vendor like Apple or Google could set up to provide users with a plethora of new emoji glyphs/images using the blueprint offered in the QID Emoji proposal. And Unicode wouldn't need to take any action or make any approval of it. And if the major vendors lacked interest, third-partiers could step up to the plate. If there was sufficient user demand for it.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">Well, possibly, but what about issues of clashes between intellectual property rights and the desire for unambiguous and interoperable use across platforms? If the scenario you suggest happened it could possibly lead to the sort of problems that happened before The Unicode Standard was produced and resolved them.</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">William Overington</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">Friday 8 October 2021</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p></div></div></body></html>