Re: Memoji

Memoji are not merely animated emoji; they are personalized avatars.

As for animated emoji, I expect that the UTC would consider them out-of-scope for plain text. Note that web pages can already contain animated or moving elements which cannot be represented in plain text.

> On Jul 9, 2018, at 4:18 AM, William_J_G Overington via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
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> I have seen the following video.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjqERCCD4iM
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> How will memoji be communicated from one device to another?
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> What happens if a message containing a memoji gets into a web page, such as in the archives of this mailing list?
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> So, I am wondering whether memoji will become encoded into Unicode?
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> Will Unicode also have animation features?
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> This could be done with characters such as
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> ANIMATION START MARKER
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> ANIMATION FRAME SEPARATOR
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> ANIMATION FINISH MARKER
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> together with some more characters so as to specify frame duration individually for each frame in milliseconds if other then a default 2000 milliseconds is wanted for a particular frame.
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> Could a message using memoji then be streamed using a plain text link?
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> William Overington
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> Monday 9 July 2018
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Received on Mon Jul 09 2018 - 14:23:31 CDT