Re: Failure on Japanese dolls emoji

From: Doug Ewell <doug_at_ewellic.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:51:38 -0700

Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:

>> And the NamesList.txt of Unicode Character Database gives the
>> description: Japanese Hinamatsuri or girls' doll festival. Aren't
>> they the authorities to let the emoji look like hina-matsuri?
>
> OK. Then you are right in your complaint!

FWIW, I agree that annotations in NamesList.txt are a better
justification for prescribing the glyph design of a Unicode character,
even an emoji, than tribal knowledge about the history or origin of the
character.

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