RE: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Ruszlan Gaszanov (ruszlan@ather.net)
Date: Thu Dec 25 2008 - 04:57:04 CST


Egyptian hieroglyphs and emoticons have distinct semantics. Emoji animal,
fruit, vegetable and food pictures are just random pictures of animals,
fruit, vegetables and food U+263A.

Ruszlan

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From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
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Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 11:22 AM
To: Ruszlan Gaszanov
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Subject: Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

On 25 Dec 2008, at 09:50, Ruszlan Gaszanov wrote:

> Personally, I see no problem with encoding a few more common
> emoticons - after all we already have U+2639, U+263A and U+263B. It
> is the value of encoding things like images of animals and
> vegetables or animated versions of existing punctuation I find
> highly questionable.

Lots of the animals are encoded as Egyptian hieroglyphs already.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com



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