<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Aptos;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;}
span.EmailStyle18
{mso-style-type:personal;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:#0A2F41;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:11.0pt;
mso-ligatures:none;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0A2F41'>Charlotte Eiffel Lilith Buff wrote, in part:<br>>you have submitted your request to the Unicode mailing list, which is<br>>just a place for random people to discuss miscellaneous Unicode<br>>topics. Nothing that happens here is going to affect the development<br>>or implementation of the Unicode Standard.<br><br>Then can someone suggest a better forum for Sai to make his point?<br><br>While it seems relatively unlikely that anyone will be harmed by using a cane incorrectly because they saw it in an emoji, there is value in getting it right, as his examples demonstrate. Is there a First Nations emoji that looks like the old Washington Redskins mascot? Is there a Black emoji with a bone in its lip? Would those be ok?<br><br>I have no dog in this specific fight, but it feels like people are saying “Oh, this is just PC nitpicking”, and that’s oversimplifying it. This stuff is permanent(ish). Remember the fiasco with the Japanese combining characters, which nobody uses. Like that, this seems to suggest a lack of care/research by the Consortium into real-world usage. And isn’t real-world usage the fundamental goal of Unicode?<br><br>...phsiii<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>