microsoft
Please provide parts for combining emojis
Thanks for giving us these emoji. I'm so love them that I want to make something to bring them to the web for all platforms, like Twemoji. I've done quite a lot, and the next thing I need to do is supporting combining emojis (I have a way to combine parts) , so I need parts. I know you're trying to bring out intact combining emojis, but while you do it, just provide their parts first.
Thanks!
By the way, if I use those emojis which are not included in this repository (for item mentioned above), is this a copyright violation?
We'll look at the issue with the parts and try to resolve that. Regarding copyright, the intent is that you can use these assets as you'd like, like code that is released under MIT license. We are trying to get licensing evaluated per other requests about CC vs MIT and will address that as soon as we can.
We'll look at the issue with the parts and try to resolve that.
What's the next for this? Will you provide parts first, or just bring out all full variants?
I also want to clarify me. I don't mean want to "use these assets as I'd like", but just dump them and use a JavaScript to replace emojis on web with them, to provides them across all platforms, like Twemoji. How these emojis will be used depends on the user who using the script, but isn't me. So please reconsider it, thank you. 😊
@jasoncuster @spencer-nelson any updates?
It would be incredibly helpful, if you would provide the script to build the actual font.
Some of us did not want this change, and have been trying on our own to revert the change, or switch to emoji we can read - having the source code to build the proper font would be extremely helpful, so we can fork it and make changes.
Imagine if your operating system forced you to switch your system front to cursive overnight, with no option to turn it off. That's what this feels like. I'm obviously making a somewhat hyperbolic comparison here, but only barely. Emoji have become an essential part of our day to day visual language. I can't make any sense of these new emoji. Even if I could switch my Android phone to use them, I'm not sure I could get used to them. I also just don't personally like them. It doesn't feel like these were designed for adults.
I realize that's just my personal experience - but that's the point: how you experience this change is personal, and for a lot of us, this isn't a helpful or welcome change.
And I understand it's not a priority for you to maintain the old set of emoji, or provide options - but then, please, provide us with the source code to build the font, and dump the old emoji in a repository, so we can go and fix this on our own.
Please. 🙏
as of the latest Windows update, replacing the emoji font now appears to be impossible.
is Microsoft now actively preventing the replacement of the font? wtf 😥
