On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Joan Montané <joan_at_montane.cat> wrote:
> AFAIK, this is done in font side. Emoji flags are just ligatures, so a
> font can provide a ligature for 4 RIS characters.
>
Technically true, but a font that violates the encoding standard would
cause large problems. Imagine a font that ligates letters 't' and 'h' and
displays an Egyptian hieroglyph for the combination.
What's the way for encoding them in Unicode standard?
>
In principle, the way for encoding anything in the Unicode Standard is to
write a well-formed proposal, and convince the Unicode Technical Committee
and ISO JTC1/SC2 that the proposal has merit.
However, I would much prefer if everyone spent their considerable energy on
upgrading protocols (e.g., IETF RFCs for email subject lines) and lobby
relevant vendors (e.g., chat services & social network messages) to support
images embedded in the text stream, ideally with scaling and other behavior
that would make them behave somewhat text-like.
Best regards,
markus
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