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Bug 764796 - Allow choosing skin tone for emojis that support it
Allow choosing skin tone for emojis that support it
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-characters
Classification: Other
Component: general
3.20.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Characters maintainer(s)
GNOME Characters maintainer(s)
emoji
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-04-08 15:50 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2018-02-08 13:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
it kinda works (19.14 KB, image/png)
2016-04-12 11:03 UTC, Matthias Clasen
Details
but only for some emoji (20.58 KB, image/png)
2016-04-12 11:04 UTC, Matthias Clasen
Details

Description Bastien Nocera 2016-04-08 15:50:53 UTC
When choosing an emoji that supports changing the skin colour, Characters should show a drop-down that would allow choosing the skin colour, possibly remembering the skin colour for that icon, so it shows as a the "preferred" (left-most in LTR languages) emoji.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2016-04-12 10:17:54 UTC
This is implemented in the Unicode layer, see http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Diversity
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2016-04-12 11:03:55 UTC
Created attachment 325786 [details]
it kinda works
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2016-04-12 11:04:20 UTC
Created attachment 325787 [details]
but only for some emoji
Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2016-04-12 11:05:13 UTC
So, we probably need a function that tells us if this work for an emoji or not.

Unicode calls the characters for which it works "emoji modifier base".
Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2016-04-12 11:52:05 UTC
Here is a list of all the emoji modifier bases and their modifications:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/pango/tree/pango-view/EMOJI-MODIFIERS.txt
Comment 6 Daiki Ueno 2016-04-13 07:22:26 UTC
Just to add another data point for design, it sounds similar to IVS:
https://blogs.adobe.com/CCJKType/2010/02/ivs_support_the_current_status.html

I guess it would be nice if there is a unified interface to browse all possible "variants" of a character.
Comment 7 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-02-08 13:16:44 UTC
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