Re: Treating IVS on SVG in OpenType

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:20 PM, onyx labo <onyxtechlabo@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is onyx. I'm a coordinator of Japanese Emoji and has first
> implemented it into the Android in Japan.
>
> As you know, Japanese carriers have an original design for Emoji which is
> usually used in mail only and are used the gray scale font for other
> applications. However Unicode 6,0 defined a part of these Emoji are unified
> the original code which existed in Unicode 5.2. So we need to define to use
> either colorful or gray scale with easy implementation to fit each scene of
> applications.
>
> And we have to decide this solution ASAP due to transfer the Unicode 6.0
> Emoji data with Japanese carrier Email via internet.
>
> My understanding is we can use the colorful or gray scale Emoji separately
> if we use this OpenType format. If we need to select the 2 color types data
> with each applications, I consider to use the IVS number to use this
> purpose. (& easy implementation)
>
> However I couldn't find the descriptions to deal with the IVS number in
> this specification. My understanding is:
> If IVS number is 0 or nothing, we draw the glyph with gray scale and draw
> the colorful Emoji in case of other number (ex. 1).
> Is this correct??
>

That might work. Another possible solution would be to simply have two
fonts: a grayscale font and a color font. Would that work?

Rob
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