From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2011 - 11:22:49 CST
Your suggestion entails putting both a symbol-encoding and a Unicode-encoding cmap into a font. I have no idea what different software would do with that: some might recognize the Unicode cmap, other software might pick the one that's listed first in the font, other software might just reject the font.
That's the font issue. I was thinking more about the data. For example I can search for the symbol-encoded Windings symbol, but now it would have two different representations.
For legacy encoding of Emoji characters, most of that data is transient in nature (SMS messages) or is email sitting on a server belonging to the mobile provide who defines that proprietary extension to Shift-JIS. They already manage all the data coming into or going out of their environment.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Fynn [mailto:chris.fynn@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:13 AM
To: Unicode List
Cc: Peter Constable
Subject: Re: square bullets added to unicode.
How is the mapping from the old (phone company) Emoji character encoding to the new official Unicode encoding handled? Couldn't something similar be done?
A nasty (but probably effective) way of handling it would be to simply map the glyphs in an updated Wingdings font to both the PUA codepoint and an official codepoint.
- C
On 25/01/2011, Peter Constable <petercon@microsoft.com<mailto:petercon@microsoft.com>> wrote:
> Various people have indicated at one time or another that they would
> work on a proposal to encode wingdings, etc. But I haven't seen any
> such proposals submitted yet.
>
> Of course, if an when such symbols get encoded in Unicode, there will
> just be a different problem to sort out: today, you can interchange
> text meaningfully with someone else so long as the Wingdings (or Webdings, etc.
> as appropriate) font is used. It doesn't work for plain text, but it
> evidently works reasonably well with rich text (since the font
> formatting is retained). But once in Unicode, data using the new
> character will not be interchangeable with the large amount of legacy data out there.
>
>
> Peter
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