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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution
From:       Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer () kde ! org>
Date:       2017-08-09 14:36:48
Message-ID: F2F84E2F-26E8-484F-AA03-909636C65A47 () kde ! org
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> On 09 Aug 2017, at 16:19, Eike Hein <hein@kde.org> wrote:
> 
> On August 9, 2017 4:28:49 PM GMT+09:00, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer@kde.org> \
> wrote:
> > On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 02:14:44 CEST Jonathan Frederickson wrote:
> > > On 08/08/2017 06:19 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > > - Support for a decent set of Emoji (not just the ones you can
> > create
> > > > using
> > > > ASCII chars).
> > > > Using Unicode to display them is probably okay, as long as users
> > can
> > > > choose
> > > > them from a menu in the client instead of having to paste them from
> > > > KCharSelect.
> > > > This, too, might sound like nice-to-have for many, but not having
> > them
> > > > would cut us off from the younger generation. Yes, they use them
> > even in
> > > > a "professional context". Believe me, I'm seeing it in action every
> > day
> > > > at work.
> > > I'm not sure custom emoji should be a requirement. That pretty
> > heavily
> > > limits your options, and even some of the major chat platforms
> > > (WhatsApp, iMessage, Hangouts) don't support this.
> > 
> > That's why I wrote that Unicode is okay. Unicode now has quite a range
> > of 
> > emoji and that set is growing steadily, so that's fine. Not optimal
> > because 
> > they're black and white, but fine. 
> > Just not only ASCII ones.
> > 
> > Custom emoji are nice, but definitely not a must.
> 
> This is technically completely wrong - nothing prevents Unicode emoji from being \
> colored, there are multiple color font technologies in use and Linux toolkits \
> support some of them. 
> A "Unicode emoji" is just a number encoded to a bit sequence. How it's displayed \
> once found is up to the client. Unicode is just how you agree on exchanging and \
> storing the character. 
Actually I realized this myself today when I actually looked at examples of Unicode \
emojis in some standard fonts and saw that yes, those were colored.

Okay cool then Unicode it is :)


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