From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Subject: Re: Unicode 13 – save the \dodo!
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 10:29:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5ae51892-4ea4-5a90-5d39-eef8f1bb7ec1@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38B3A355-748A-4AB8-9D56-256EACD46621@fiee.net>
On 2/5/2020 9:45 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> 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
a never ending story i guess
> see https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-13.0/emoji-released.html
indeed, i already added those
> I still miss e.g.
> - adaptible colors for everything-else-than-skintone (e.g. vehicles)
and the cars should of course be recognizable as using petrol, diesel,
batteries (and some ligature for hybrids, software cheats etc)
> - 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...)
i think emoji and choices are already political
> - lots of local and/or vegetarian food (Kässpätzle, Leberkäswecken, Schupfnudeln, veg. pizza, tofu…)
i assume that at some point there should also be a descriptive file
explaining what these symbols actually represent
> - some sense…
indeed
> 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.
lots of weird things indeed ... kind of iconic esperanto so maybe som
grammar will come too
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-05 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-05 8:45 Henning Hraban Ramm
2020-02-05 9:29 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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
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