Re: UTS#51 and emoji-sequences.txt

From: Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 13:10:00 +0200

Thanks, it definitely looks like there are some mismatches in terminology
there. Can you please file this with the reporting form on the unicode site?

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On Sat, Jun 9, 2018, 05:00 Yifán Wáng via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
wrote:

> When I'm looking at
> https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/11.0/emoji-sequences.txt
>
> It goes on line 16 that:
> ----------
> # type_field: any of {Emoji_Combining_Sequence, Emoji_Flag_Sequence,
> Emoji_Modifier_Sequence}
> # The type_field is a convenience for parsing the emoji sequence
> files, and is not intended to be maintained as a property.
> ----------
>
> This field, however, actually contains "Emoji_Keycap_Sequence" and
> "Emoji_Tag_Sequence", instead of "Emoji_Combining_Sequence" (it was
> already so in 5.0).
>
> And I go back to
> http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/
>
> Under the section 1.4.6:
> ----------
> ED-21. emoji keycap sequence set — The specific set of emoji sequences
> listed in the emoji-sequences.txt file [emoji-data] under the category
> Emoji_Keycap_Sequence.
> ED-22. emoji modifier sequence set — The specific set of emoji
> sequences listed in the emoji-sequences.txt file [emoji-data] under
> the category Emoji_Modifier_Sequence.
> ED-23. RGI emoji flag sequence set — The specific set of emoji
> sequences listed in the emoji-sequences.txt file [emoji-data] under
> the category Emoji_Flag_Sequence.
> ED-24. RGI emoji tag sequence set — The specific set of emoji
> sequences listed in the emoji-sequences.txt file [emoji-data] under
> the category Emoji_Tag_Sequence.
> ----------
>
> I'm not sure if the "category" means "type_field" or headings in the
> txt file, as the headings do not contain underscores. If it means
> "type_field", then the description of type_field above is wrong.
>
> Also the section 1.4.5:
> ----------
> ED-14c. emoji keycap sequence — A sequence of the following form:
>
> emoji_keycap_sequence := [0-9#*] \x{FE0F 20E3}
>
> - These characters are in the emoji-sequences.txt file listed under
> the category Emoji_Keycap_Sequence
> ----------
> While in the previous version (rev. 12):
> ----------
> ED-14c. emoji keycap sequence — An emoji combining sequence of the
> following form:
>
> emoji_keycap_sequence := [0-9#*] \x{FE0F 20E3}
>
> - These characters are in the emoji-sequences.txt file listed under
> the category Emoji_Combining_Keycap_Sequence
> ----------
>
> It seems there was some kind of confusion on terms, but anyway, isn't
> the last line of ED-14c redundant with the current revision? (Or
> "Emoji_Combining_Sequence" is intended?)
>
> Thank you.
>
> Wang Yifan
>
>
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