Re: If Unicode wants to show the Red Card to someone ...

On 2013-04-01 12:19 PM, Buck Golemon wrote:
> I'm sure that some cards are blue. Do they not also deserve a code point?
> This amounts to color prejudice.
>
> If we generalize the proposal, we should encode all the various colors
> of cards.
> Further, we could denormalize the "red card" symbol into combining
> characters for "red" and "card".
> This points to a general category of colored combining characters.
>
> The only remaining question is whether the colors should be
> represented in the HSL or HSV color space.

Variation selectors!

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