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Private reserved blocks are perfect for emoji and developling languages. They can be a time-variable recommendation, not a standard, by Unicode. That's how anyt
by vortico 8y ago
Private reserved blocks are perfect for emoji and developling languages. They can be a time-variable recommendation, not a standard, by Unicode. That's how anything gets standardized. You don't just put new arbitrary ideas into the mainline standard. This is like Boost and the C++ standard, or PEP drafts and the Python standard, or W3 WD and REC, or industry de-facto standards and ISO. If emoji becomes constant enough (not likely since no language will even be developed using it), it should then be moved into Unicode Standard.
But accepting emoji to the official standard on the spot? I see they've chosen my (1) from above.
- cryptonector 8y agoPUC are completely non-interoperable. Apple and Google, and their users, want to interop. PUC is a non-starter.
- vortico 8y agoSo why don't Apple and Google agree on a standard? Why does Unicode need to do it?
- cryptonector 8y agoBecause PUC means private to an organization. Any standard imposed on PUC would... violate the Unicode standard, and any standard of how to use PUC would, if accepted by the industry, be indistinguishable from... just the Unicode Consortium standardizing those characters. Why is the UC doing this not good for you but some other standards development organization (formal or informal) OK?
- vortico 8y agoIn this case, the rules of Unicode has set itself up to be doomed. If the organization favors commercial votes over common sense, it is no longer an organization with the purpose of standardizing human glyphs, but a company that accepts icons from companies for cash. However, going back to my original point, UC's decision to standardize smileys from Japanese icons was a mistake, and it can be reversed by releasing that part of the standard into a non-UC-endorsed extension, or by deprecating it entirely, recommending system-dependent methods for transmitting icons instead.
- cryptonector 8y agoNot commercial votes, paying members's votes. I prefer SDOs like the IETF, which are not pay-to-play, but, really, a seat at the UC is a drop in the bucket for nation states.