On Jan 16, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 09:13:03AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: >> Then get the Unicode people sign off on treating your special special >> characters as text, otherwise it's just an abuse of the system. If all >> the people who want to do this get together and get a set of agreed upon >> generic icon 'types' defined as Unicode code points - 'U+B540 is a >> preferences icon', or what the heck ever - then fine. As long as people >> are just making it up as they go along, they're 'embracing and >> extending'. > > Well, it does seem that they're using the Private Use Areas, which are > specfically reserved for basically this purpose. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas > > The other thing -- getting unicode to include standard symbols -- is > happening. That's why we have 💩 . Yay standards! Oh man. Change that to 144pt. Is it chocolate soft serve with a smile? Or is it Mr. Hanky's cousin? Right-click on it> Show Font > Apple Color Emoji > Character Character Name? PILE OF POO Hahaha. Oh so many bad ideas made into a standard here… 👌 This does not mean OK in many countries! 👍 This can also be a crude gesture. 👃 This is just bad graphics. Pine decoration, custard, bento box, and wind chime. Standards. Oh boy. Chris Murphy -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
