Can anyone please tell me how to make a font that can display iPhone emojis? I have all the emojis images, just have no idea how to make computer fonts out of images!
The images can be found in this zip file
http://www.modmyi.com/forums/file-mods/425661-keyboard-emoji-artwork-unpacked-dl.html
They are all 32x32 png files!
I have noticed that on the http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html web page, which at the time of writing of this post states that it was last updated on 12 February 2009 17:12:55, that there is reference to the Emoji having been accepted into the pipeline.
1F300..1F545 582 Miscellaneous Pictographic Symbols [Emoji] (Miscellaneous Pictographic Symbols block: 1F300..1F5FF) 2009-Feb-06 Accepted N/A
1F600..1F641 66 Emoji Compatibility Symbols (Emoji Compatibility Symbols block: 1F600..1F64F) 2009-Feb-06 Accepted N/A
Earlier on the web page is the following.
Caution: use of proposed or accepted characters is at implementers’ own risk; the composition and allocation of the characters may change before they are adopted in the Unicode Standard.
The only listing of which I am currently aware is at the following page, which is dated 2009-Feb-06.
http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/utc.html
For other submissions about other non-Emoji characters previously there has usually (always?) been a pdf document available. Does anyone know if there is a pdf for the Emoji submission please?
I got the above link from the http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2008-m12/0063.html web page.
William Overington
18 February 2009
I was at the last Unicode Technical Committee meeting, and the Emoji were discussed at length. Specifically, the discussion centered on finalizing the character repertoire, which characters should be placed in pre-existing blocks, and the demonstrative glyph forms for presentation and balloting at the Tokyo WG2 (ISO 10646) meeting next month. Currently, Unicode 5.2 is in beta and should be fully released quite soon, and it does not include the Emoji. Pending WG2 approval, they are scheduled for Unicode 6.0, beta next spring, full release in about a year. Once the WG2 has met, you will probably be able to get the preliminary allocation from the Unicode Consortium or Michael Everson. I can personally attest to everyone here that actual thought and debate - I kid you not - has gone into whether the example glyph for an Emoji camel should be dromedary or bactrian, whether a bookmark should have tassels, and whether a horse should be standing or running. The discussions lasted longer than an hour - and the UTC had already approved the proposal itself at a previous meeting!
Van
That’s only to be expected — the camel itself was designed by a committee (allegedly).
What new emoji would people like there to be?
Who decides which emoji become implemented?
Those so far seem to be because some mobile telephone manufacturers had a private agreement about having some emoji in firmware in the Unicode Private Use Area of some mobile telephones, then Google wanted to be able to archive unambiguously messages that used them and Unicode has agreed to facilitate that desire.
Yet if the manufacturers decide to add some more emoji, from where will they arise?
This thread has, as I start to write this post, 24 posts (1 original plus 23 replies) and 6121 views.
So, ladies and gentlemen, here is a chance to suggest some future emoji. I am not in a position to offer that any of the suggestions will be used, whether yours or mine, yet 6121 views is quite a lot so maybe, just maybe, people who make the decisions will read whatever is suggested in this thread and maybe, just maybe, some or all suggestions might get added into some future list and become implemented in mobile telephones and maybe Unicode.
So, here are three suggestions from me.
FLOWERING APRICOT TREE
OKAPI
DAVIDIA INVOLUCRATA SHOWING BRACTS
An interesting matter is that the mobile telephone manufacturers use the plane 0 Private Use Area whereas the Google transcription used in the encoding in Unicode process uses the plane 15 Private Use Area.
Would additional emoji need to be encoded in firmware in a new edition of mobile telephones or could they arise in software applications for the iPhone?
William Overington
3 February 2010
Actually, it was worse than even that. The telephone manufacturers had promulgated no less than fifteen(!) different versions of Shift-JIS to encode their Emoji characters. The desire was not so much for Google archival purposes, but more because JIS and many of the mobile companies wanted to get a unified repertoire. I wouldn’t know most of this, except that I am sitting in the UTC, and they are talking about Emoji right now.
Ah yes, your post is timestamped as 04 Feb 2010 00:06, which is Universal Time, and California is 8 hours behind that, so it was made at 4:06 pm on Wednesday 3 February 2010 local time in California.
The web page http://www.unicode.org/timesens/calendar.html includes at the present time the following.
quote
UTC # 122 / L2 # 219 – Feb 1 - 5
Hosted by Microsoft, Mountain View, CA
Feb 1 (10:30 am - 5:30 pm)
Feb 2 - 4 (9:30 am - 5:30 pm)
Feb 5 (9:30 am - 12:30 pm)
end quote
As regards the information, thank you for explaining the situation.
The web page http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html includes at the present time, though in the page it is in columns.
quote, with column breaks presented here as row breaks
F300..1F5FF
529
Miscellaneous Pictographic Symbols [Emoji] (Miscellaneous Pictographic Symbols block: 1F300..1F5FF)
2009-Feb-06
Accepted;
2009-May-15
Names and Code Points Changed;
2009-Nov-03
Names and Code Points Changed
2009-Oct-30
Stage 5
end quote, with column breaks presented here as row breaks
There is a similar, though different, entry for Emoticons.
There are also entries for Transport and map symbols and for Alchemical Symbols, though I am unsure whether either or both are in the same general framework as emoji.
However, I suppose that they could be used in the manner of emoji if a manufacturer of mobile telephones so chose, just as a manufacturer of mobile telephones could use other symbols already in Unicode in the manner of emoji if a manufacturer of mobile telephones so chose.
So, in view of all the acceptances and changes thus far, I am wondering what was being discussed.
I searched for JIS at Google and found the following link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Industrial_Standards
From that web page I found the following link.
http://www.jisc.go.jp/eng/index.html
William Overington
4 February 2010
I happened to look at the following web page again this morning and noticed that it has been updated as the page is now dated as 2010-Apr-27.
http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/utc.html
I had followed the link from the following thread.
http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/high-plane-unicode-mapping/2340/1
The thread is the “High Plane Unicode Mapping” thread in the support forum.
William Overington
11 May 2010
I posted a note in the Unicode mailing list about the updated document.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m05/0022.html
Markus Scherer replied in the following post.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m05/0026.html
Note that the .html files there link to symbol image files that are out of
sync with the current code points and AMD8 glyphs. The emojidata.pdf file in
the same folder is up to date.For more information see
http://sites.google.com/site/unicodesymbols/Home/emoji-symbols >
The pdf document to which Markus refers is accessible as follows.
http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/emojidata.pdf
William Overington
13 May 2010
The Unicode 6.0 beta is now available at http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0/ . 6.0 adds 2,087 characters, including many new symbols; chief among them are the new emoji symbols, 222 new CJK Unified Ideographs, and three new scripts: Mandaic, Batak, and Brahmi, for a total of 109,448 characters.
I started from the following post in the archive of the Unicode public mailing list.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m06/0067.html
After some searching I managed to find the files for the emoji in the following directory.
http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/charts/blocks/
Here are direct download links.
http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/charts/blocks/U1F300.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/charts/blocks/U1F600.pdf
William Overington
4 June 2010
I had been looking through the example glyphs in (the present version of) the emoji codechart document.
http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/charts/blocks/U1F300.pdf
Later, quite separately, I was having a look through various photographs of San Gimignano, Italy within Google Streetview.
I noticed the following picture, which seemed to have a resonance with one of the emoji images.
Checking back in the emoji document I found the following.
U+1F306 CITYSCAPE AT DUSK
There are a number of differences between the two images as well as similarities, and some readers might perhaps find it interesting to compare and contrast the two images.
William Overington
8 June 2010
On 4 June 2010 I wrote as follows.
Versions produced on 14 June 2010 have now been uploaded.
The links to download them are the same as before.
William Overington
16 June 2010
In the http://www.unicode.org/Public/6.0.0/charts/blocks/U1F300.pdf document.
U+1F308 RAINBOW
From http://maps.google.com and search for San Gimignano, enlarge several steps, and then drag the orange man logo to highlight Streetview availability, one of the photographs linked is as follows.
William Overington
18 June 2010
Some readers might find the following thread that I started of interest.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m06/0435.html
The thread is about keying emoji characters using an ordinary keyboard.
William Overington
30 June 2010
Most of the emoji characters are now available in Unicode in the following code chart, though some got unified with other Unicode characters that had been defined in earlier versions of Unicode.
Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf
Also of interest may be the following.
Emoticons
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F600.pdf
The following document explains that emoticons are not exactly the same as emoji.
http://www.unicode.org/faq/emoji_dingbats.html
I found that page from a link in the following page.
http://www.unicode.org/press/pr-6.0.html
The above and many other code charts are available from the following web page.
http://www.unicode.org/charts/
Regarding the unifying of some of the emoji with other Unicode characters that had been defined in earlier versions of Unicode, fortunately the following document is still available.
http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/emojidata.pdf
Adobe Reader dates the document as 27/04/2010 15:48:30 when I opened the document from the link while preparing this post.
William Overington
13 December 2010
And just to keep up with matters, the Beta for Unicode 6.1 has been released. It includes 17 new emoji added to the Emoticons, and Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs blocks; seven new scripts: Meroitic Hieroglyphs, Meroitic Cursive, Sora Sompeng, Chakma, Sharada, Takri, and Miao (Pollard); 143 Arabic Mathematical Alphabetic Symbols; additions to 14 already supported scripts; 10 new punctuation; and several compatibility or presentation characters. Unicode 6.1 is scheduled for final release in February.
The following has an interesting proposal for the future of the encoding of emoji in plain text: please note that the file is 1.1 Megabytes in size.
http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/n4182.pdf
It is linked from the following page.
http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC2/WG2/docs/
William Overington
16 January 2012
Just to add a bit of context for those unfamiliar with the history of emoji and the Unicode encoding thereof, this proposal by Peter Edberg (of Apple computers) is to allow the specification of emoji presentation styles for characters that were not encoded as emoji, but rather as regular compatibility or graphic characters. In short, the emoji collections from Japanese phone manufacturers were not simply copy-and-pasted into Unicode, but the entire repertoire was compared with characters already in the standard. Where matches were found, a new, duplicate character was not encoded, but the emoji use was unified with the pre-existing character. As such, the emoji-specific characters are generally interpreted as being colored and shaded, sometimes with animation. Obviously, these are features that are not found in regular text characters. The characters that were unified with an emoji use have two different interpretations, namely as regular black-and-white text elements, map symbols, etc., but also as colored, shaded, animated emoji characters. Fortunately, Unicode has a handy, built-in method of limiting the presentation form of a given character through the use of Variation Selectors. These Variation Selectors can be used to select the Japanese, Chinese, or historical styles of the Unified CJK (Han) ideographs, specific shaping forms of 'Phags Pa letters, and styles of mathematical operators. Peter proposes to use the 15th and 16th Variation Selectors to limit the appropriate glyph presentation of these dual text/emoji characters to text-style (VS-15) or emoji-style (VS-16). One of these characters without a Variation Selector can be freely represented with either style glyph.
Some interesting documents.
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14085-emoji.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2014/14093-utr51-draft-emoji.pdf
Source: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L-curdoc.htm
William Overington
3 May 2014