I was startled for a second... 
The world needs a way to express this emotion in a single character!
Now that this instance is likely the first one that has an emoji of a #StartledSeaCucumber, how do I start a campaign to get it into #Unicode?
The world needs a way to express this emotion in a single character!
The world needs a way to express this emotion in a single character!
Hey @codepoints - I have a question about unicode: How can the very incomplete representation of Echinodermata in Unicode be fixed - what is the process to establish a new code point?
Codepoints.net@chris hi!
There is a small technical distinction to be made: emojis and code points are two different, albeit related, things that Unicode concerns itself in.
Emojis are proposed via a process that @emojipedia explains here: https://emojipedia.org/proposals
Code points are proposed following the guidelines here: https://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html
In both cases, however, you need strong arguments for the inclusion, usually a well-documented need (by more than one party) or actual use in plain text.
@chris that means in the case of sea cucumbers:
- it’s most likely an emoji proposal, not a code point one.
- a proposal needs to document the specific need for a sea cucumber, needs to differentiate it from possible future star fish emoji, ...
- it helps when a community (best: a community of linguists joined by some biologists) supports the request
ospalhFor new #emoji, yu write a proposal.
@chris
And taking one further step too far, while looking at your earlier sea cucumber toot:
I see potential for the ZWJ-sequence (plain) sea cucumber + 🤮
And taking one further step too far, while looking at your earlier sea cucumber toot:
I see potential for the ZWJ-sequence (plain) sea cucumber + 🤮
Or maybe get »vendors«, i.e. the Emoji sequence makers, to do 🥒 + 🌊 for sea cucumber, never mind it would cross the kingdom boundary plant→animal.
@ospalh Wow, thanks, this guy unicodes!