Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: vunzndi@vfemail.net
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 21:08:01 CST

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    Quoting "Mark Davis" <mark.edward.davis@gmail.com>:

    > On the FLAGs, we have paid attention to what you said, and opened
    > issue #58 for it so that we wouldn't lose it.
    >
    > http://code.google.com/p/emoji4unicode/issues/detail?id=58
    >
    > This was one where we didn't take any action yet because this was an
    > area where the UTC had already given us direction, and we figured it
    > would probably take some discussion there in any event.
    >
    > Mind you, I don't think anyone particularly cares what we call these
    > beasties. It could be EMOJI SYMBOL FOR RUSSIAN LOCALIZATION (or
    > COMPATIBILTY EMOJI FLAG SYMBOL FOR RUSSIAN), or whatever. They are
    > being used as proxy for choosing localizations, but such use of
    > country flags is strongly discouraged in localization best practices.
    > We have no interest in country flags beyond what we need for
    > compatibility with the emoji sets!
    >

    But others, in fact probably most of the human race do have an
    interest a wider interest in flags.

    Regards
    john knightley

    >
    > And so if it seems likely that that would be the consensus on of the
    > UTC, we could go ahead and put it in the working proposal.
    >
    >
    > Mark
    >
    >



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