Re: Emoji
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 8:02 am
Some readers might like to know of the following post in the Unicode mail list archive.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0064.html
It is entitled "Emoji: Public Review December 2008".
There are already two posts Re: that topic in the Unicode mail list archive.
The entrance to the archive is on the following page.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/
There are some interesting links in the first post mentioned above.
http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4u ... t/utc.html
The contents of that document may change with time.
http://groups.google.com/group/emoji4unicode
That link opens onto an archive of posts about the proposal.
In the http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4u ... t/utc.html document as it stands as I write this post, I did notice one item straightaway.
About a fifth of the way down is an item labelled as YEOMAN OF THE GUARD with the note • Beefeater, British below it. Yet the illustration is of a Guardsman of a Foot Guard regiment, not of a Yeoman of the Guard, which is a different group.
The Yeomen of the Guard wear Tudor-style uniforms, with a flat hat. They are typically shown on the television at the State Opening of Parliament in England. They are not the same group as the Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London. Readers who know of the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera named Yeoman of the Guard may also know that that name is in that Opera being wrongly applied to the Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London.
There are pictures on the following page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeomen_of_the_Guard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeomen_Warders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_Guards
William Overington
19 December 2008
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0064.html
It is entitled "Emoji: Public Review December 2008".
There are already two posts Re: that topic in the Unicode mail list archive.
The entrance to the archive is on the following page.
http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/
There are some interesting links in the first post mentioned above.
http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4u ... t/utc.html
The contents of that document may change with time.
http://groups.google.com/group/emoji4unicode
That link opens onto an archive of posts about the proposal.
In the http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4u ... t/utc.html document as it stands as I write this post, I did notice one item straightaway.
About a fifth of the way down is an item labelled as YEOMAN OF THE GUARD with the note • Beefeater, British below it. Yet the illustration is of a Guardsman of a Foot Guard regiment, not of a Yeoman of the Guard, which is a different group.
The Yeomen of the Guard wear Tudor-style uniforms, with a flat hat. They are typically shown on the television at the State Opening of Parliament in England. They are not the same group as the Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London. Readers who know of the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera named Yeoman of the Guard may also know that that name is in that Opera being wrongly applied to the Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London.
There are pictures on the following page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeomen_of_the_Guard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeomen_Warders
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_Guards
William Overington
19 December 2008