Emojis in Indic scripts

manojgnath
manojgnath Posts: 9
in Technique and Theory
Dear All,
Can any one suggest how can we add Emojis along with Indic script and how do i write code for this in Volt. If any one can help me out in this subject that will be a great help
reggards
Manoj
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  • Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian
    Hrant Հրանդ Փափազեան Papazian Posts: 2,044
    Please no.
  • SiDaniels
    SiDaniels Posts: 277
    Skin tone and special modifiers aside surely emoji are treated like other isolated form characters (eg like Latin upper case letters) so what code are you looking for?
  • Ray Larabie
    Ray Larabie Posts: 1,432
    Flag codes require substitutions.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Indicator_Symbol

    Does anyone know if any other substitutions are required for emoji? I think it's just the skin tone modifiers and the flags.
  • manojgnath
    manojgnath Posts: 9
    I designed emoji shaped using Fontographer and generated the .ttf font and then I opened up in Volt and i had given the the Unicode value of the glyph s then i put all these shapes in to ligature substitution and put in on Latin script. Even the same ligature i put it in CCMP. The problem i am facing is these glyphs are not showing in character map or in words where i am inserting as symbol Its showing just blank.  Can anyone help me to correct this one.. I dont know where i am wrong 


  • manojgnath
    manojgnath Posts: 9
    Thanx every one for the feed back

  • SiDaniels
    SiDaniels Posts: 277
    Ray, I'll check with the Windows font team and see if they can provide details of which substitutions they have included in our emoji font.

    Manoj, emoji are not normally mapped as ligatures of Latin characters, they have their own unique Unicode code points.
  • manojgnath
    manojgnath Posts: 9
    Yes Daniels i had given the Unicode value to the glyph s and generated using through Volt But its not showing in Character map as well as in Font. Even i tried generating an Open type  font and installed in font folder and then opened the word application and try to insert as symbol still its not showing the Glyph itself.

  • SiDaniels
    SiDaniels Posts: 277
    You could dry diffing your font against a known working emoji font, such as Segoe UI Emoji, Segoe UI Symbol, Apple Color Emoji or open source equivalents. That should help you work out where you went wrong.
  • Deleted Account
    Deleted Account Posts: 739
    That's good news. We have been failing with wet diffing. 
  • SiDaniels
    SiDaniels Posts: 277
    edited January 2017
    Manoj managed to track me down and sent the font. My colleagues on the Windows font team determined the font "didn’t have the 3,10,12 cmap" required for emoji code points.

    Ray, along with the substitutions you mention, our latest emoji font uses gpos to compose family groups.
  • manojgnath
    manojgnath Posts: 9
    Thanx Daniels for your valuable feedback and support.

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