From: William_J_G Overington (wjgo_10009@btinternet.com)
Date: Thu Mar 03 2011 - 03:57:26 CST
On Wednesday 2 March 2011, Peter Edberg <pedberg@apple.com> wrote:
> My understanding is that new emoji added for mobile phone use in Japan or elsewhere in East Asia will be supported as embedded graphics, rather than encoded as plain text by a mobile phone carrier. It was the plain text encoding of the legacy core emoji set, and their resulting widespread interchange as plain text, that was a driver for encoding them in Unicode. There is no such driver for arbitrary graphic images that may be interchanged as such.
Well, there could be.
How about the following?
U+E900 PIXEL BLACK
U+E901 PIXEL BROWN
U+E902 PIXEL RED
U+E903 PIXEL ORANGE
U+E904 PIXEL YELLOW
U+E905 PIXEL GREEN
U+E906 PIXEL BLUE
U+E907 PIXEL MAGENTA
U+E908 PIXEL GREY
U+E909 PIXEL WHITE
U+E90A PIXEL CYAN
U+E90B PIXEL PINK
U+E90C PIXEL DARK GREY
U+E90D PIXEL LIGHT GREY
U+E9EF PIXEL TRANSPARENT
U+E9F0 PIXEL LAYOUT START
U+E9F8 PIXEL LAYOUT NEXT ROW
U+E9FF PIXEL LAYOUT FINISH
In use, if a character in the range U+E800 .. U+E8FF is received then it is displayed using the image in the cache for that code point.
If a character in the range U+E800 .. U+E8FF is followed by a U+E9F0 character, then the sequence up until a U+E9FF character is received is used to produce the display and the image is stored in the cache for that character for future use.
William Overington
3 March 2011
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