From: André Szabolcs Szelp (a.sz.szelp@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jan 06 2009 - 05:47:41 CST
Dear list members,
especially those favouring the encoding of emoji.
Please address the inquiry below (already posted earlier, but unduly ignored):
> Actually, even in the domain of emoji, how do you
> define character identity? How do you know that a
> "Chick" is a different character entity of "Hatching
> Chick", how do you know they are not mere *glyph
> variants* of the character FLEDGELING?? Having
> had assigned different private JIS-codes in the
> operators' private standard does not make them
> different characters, as we've seen it with
> preexisting standards of Arabic (having a
> codepoints for every positional variant) or the
> previously cited Chinese national standard using
> PUA for precomposed Tibetan glyphs! The same
> for "Red Heart", "Purple Heart", &c, &c. How
> do you know they are not mere
> resentational/glyph variants of the character
> HEART (already encoded: U+2661, U+2665,
> U+2764) assigend different codepoints in a
> standard not aware of the character-glyph
> model? (There have been a plenty of standards
> which would not make this distinction and would
> encode glyphs rather than characters; how
> do you know the present emoji private encoding
> is not such one?)
In my understanding glyph variations (latin ligatures, arabic
contextual alternates) are ever only encoded to solve round tripping
with _preexisting_ standards.
Regards,
Szabolcs
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