<!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><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">James Kass wrote:</span></div><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">> Anyone designing new glyphs for personal pronouns is not creating “emoji”, but rather is inventing a ConScript.</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, my idea for trying to produce designs for emoji for personal pronouns is as a result of a comment made by a gentleman in the discussion after the lecture in the following video videographed at the Unicode and Internationalization Conference in 2015.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary)); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-font-size, var(--yt-navbar-title-font-size, inherit)); display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-color, var(--yt-spec-text-primary)); font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: var(--ytd-video-primary-info-renderer-title-font-size, var(--yt-navbar-title-font-size, inherit)); display: inline !important;">Unicode Emoji: How do we standardize that je ne sais 💁? at IUC39</span><br></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">
</span><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ldSVbXbjl4</span><br></p><p><span style="display: inline !important;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></p><p><span style="display: inline !important;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Starting at 38 minutes 40 seconds into the video.</span></span></p><p><span style="display: inline !important;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">> Most of us know that there’s a registry for ConScripts using the PUA.</span><br></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">That is one initiative. Also, anyone can use the Private Use Area on his or her own independent initiative.</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;"> > So it would be necessary to assign PUA code points, ...</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p>Not necessarily. I decided to use an encoding system of my own design that I have named the Mariposa system.</p><p><br></p><p>In my opinion, the Mariposa system is far more effective for this purpose than would be a Private Use Area encoding as the codes can be entered straightforwardly on a wide variety of devices and the Mariposa system avoids many of the problems of the wrong glyph being displayed that can occur when using a Private Use Area encoding more widely than in a carefully arranged sandbox-style situation, wherein a Private Use Area encoding can indeed be very effective.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">> ... generate a font, make the font generally available, publicize it, and hope it catches on.</span><br></p></p><p><br></p><p>The font has been produced and is available and has been publicised.</p><p><br></p><p>https://corp.unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/2021-January/009300.html<br></p><p><br></p><p>> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;">That seems to be the only clear path to Unicoding novel characters.</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, the Mariposa system is a path that does not use the Private Use Area.</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;"> > If the PUA material usage reaches some kind of critical mass, someone would draft a proposal to Unicode.</span></p><p><br></p><p>As they are emoji, is that needed?</p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: inline !important;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">William Overington</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Saturday 9 October 2021</span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p><p><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></p></div></body></html>