From: Leo Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com)
Date: Sat Jan 10 2009 - 20:44:02 CST
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Peter Constable
<petercon@microsoft.com> wrote:
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Leo Broukhis
>
>> And no supplemental emoji sets ever, right? The only way
>> for that to happen is for the whole emoji hoopla to fall
>> out of fashion before long as the technology moves forward.
>
> Well, if this is indicative...
>
> http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/service/imode/make/content/deco_mail/
>
> that would seem to be the case -- at least for this vendor: note the use of HTML rather than plain text and the use of Flash or of JPG and GIF for pictograms.
To that I can only say "thank God". Is my understanding correct that
there is not enough time for emoji to get to Unicode 5.2? If so, I
hope that the process will be protracted enough and the carriers will
cease pushing emoji as text as they move to Deco-Mail etc.
Leo
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