Re: Emoji: emoticons vs. literacy

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 11:16:03 CST

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    On 12 Jan 2009, at 17:02, Michael D'Errico wrote:

    > Peter Constable wrote:
    >> And how do you feel about specifying how a process should interpret
    >> sequences like <LATIN SMALL LETTER A, FLAG A, LATIN SMALL LETTER A>?
    >
    > It would be an error, no different from an unpaired surrogate or an
    > isolated V jamo in Hangul. One possibility would be to display a
    > generic flag symbol between the two a's.

    Not even MILDLY tempting as an encoding model.

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



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