Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Sun Jan 11 2009 - 04:21:36 CST

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    On 11 Jan 2009, at 04:55, Doug Ewell wrote:

    > Leo Broukhis <leob at mailcom dot com> wrote:
    >
    >> 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.
    >
    > As I understand it, the carriers are not pushing this proposal so
    > much as Google is.

    Are the carriers involved? What about the Japanese National Body?

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



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