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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Sounds like a great goal. You've made
designs, made them available... See if people like using them,
put them in the PUA, make apps that can encode them in messages,
etc. As with any writing system, once they become popular you can
propose them for inclusion in Unicode. That's the criterion and
that's the order it happens in. Usage comes first.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">~mark<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/23/23 12:39, William_J_G
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<p><span style="display: inline;">Gabriel Tellez wrote:</span><br>
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style="display: inline;">You made those symbols yourself,
no?</span></p>
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<p><span style="">I thought of having such symbols, thought of
designs for the symbols, produced electronic images of the
designs using the Affinity Designer software program,
suggested the code numbers so that they can be used. They
are Open Source in the hope that they will become used.</span></p>
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<p><span style="">This research is at an early stage. I needed
to start somewhere. The symbols are now published and a
method to apply them has been suggested. Is it art? Is it
technology? Is it useful? Can the symbols convey meaning
effectively, including through the language barrier? Will
someone study them as applied art?</span></p>
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<p><span style="">Maybe one day the symbols and the meaning of
each will become encoded in The Unicode Standard. That will
need the symbols to become widely used by people other than
the person who devised them.</span></p>
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<p><span style="">Maybe one day they will be displayed at MoMA,
the Museum of Modern Art in New York.</span></p>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/emoji_installation_at_MoMA.htm">http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/emoji_installation_at_MoMA.htm</a></p>
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<p>There are some other symbols that I have devised, listed from
the following web page.</p>
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<p><span style="display: inline;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/mariposa_novel.htm">http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/mariposa_novel.htm</a></span><br>
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<p>They too each have a code that I have assigned to them, so
they can be used now if people choose to use them.</p>
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<p>Maybe other people will devise such abstract symbols and
assign meanings too. It would be interesting to observe if
symbols by various people can be used together, how various
researchers interact.</p>
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<p>William Overington</p>
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<p>Saturday 23 March 2023</p>
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