ntg-context - mailing list for ConTeXt users
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Unicode 13 – save the \dodo!
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 09:45:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38B3A355-748A-4AB8-9D56-256EACD46621@fiee.net> (raw)

Hi, I’m a bit late: Last week the Unicode consortium released the latest version of their nowadays mostly-emoji standard.

Besides several entries for transgender representation, there are also new animals, and most important: “my” ConTeXt mascot, the Dodo! ;D

see https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-13.0/emoji-released.html

I still miss e.g.
- adaptible colors for everything-else-than-skintone (e.g. vehicles)
- political symbols (red flag, hammer-and-sickle – of course the selection would be a political decision and would cause problems with prohibited, e.g. nazi, symbols, but maybe we can just get simple flags in several colors? adaptible would make sense...)
- lots of local and/or vegetarian food (Kässpätzle, Leberkäswecken, Schupfnudeln, veg. pizza, tofu…)
- some sense…

While I agree that we need some standardization in symbols, I still don’t think it was a good idea to mix them with text glyphs and bloat font technology with colors.

Greetlings, Hraban
___________________________________________________________________________________
If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
webpage  : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net
archive  : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/
wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
___________________________________________________________________________________

             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-05  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-05  8:45 Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2020-02-05  9:29 ` Hans Hagen
2020-02-05  9:45   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-02-05 10:25     ` Hans Hagen
2020-02-05  9:37 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2020-02-05  9:47   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-02-05 11:57     ` Arthur Reutenauer
2020-02-05  9:49   ` luigi scarso
2020-02-05 10:22   ` Hans Hagen
2020-02-05 12:16     ` Arthur Reutenauer

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=38B3A355-748A-4AB8-9D56-256EACD46621@fiee.net \
    --to=texml@fiee.net \
    --cc=ntg-context@ntg.nl \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).