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The question is, now that there is a mechanism for defining skin tone colours for Unicode characters, will this be enough? Or will users demand a similar me
by versteegen 11y ago
The question is, now that there is a mechanism for defining skin tone
colours for Unicode characters, will this be enough? Or will users
demand a similar mechanism to specify hair colour and eye colour? And
will users want to expand the concept of modifier characters to cover
any colour and any Unicode character?
I find the thought absolutely horrifying
- matthewmacleod 11y agoWhy?
- chris_wot 11y agoBecause it's encoding writing systems, not graphics systems. There is a case for Emoji, but frankly of you want to change colours of a font then let the metadata of the document do it.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAdd modifiers for proportions and it'll turn Unicode plaintext into a general-purpose drawing language.
- gherkin0 11y ago> Add modifiers for proportions and it'll turn Unicode plaintext into a general-purpose drawing language. Not even that: it's all special-purpose stuff with narrow use cases.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI think Unicode has already enough features to address any (x,y) point with some precision (think Zalgo) - now add colors and scales, and soon someone will start encoding pictures in plaintext (and I don't mean ASCII art)...
- dchest 11y agoThe beer glass emoji is filled with lager, I want to specify amber ale or stout color. We need beer modifiers!