WAP Pictograms (213) Unicode Emoji Mapping

[Crissov]

Mobile Application Environment Specification (MAE), part of OMA Browsing V2.4, still supports WAP Pictograms, although they are optional – whereas some other parts of WML/WAP are deprecated.

Item	Function	Reference	Status	Requirement
MAESpec-PICT-C-001	Support for Pictograms	5.4.1	O	WAPInterPic:MCF

5.4 Graphics Objects and Applications

5.4.1 Pictogram

This section is normative.

"WAP Pictogram Specification" [PICT] defines the common pictogram set and the format of its use within content. The common pictogram set is a set of pictograms that the User Agents recognise. Content authors may use these images to promote efficiency of communication, data transfer and network traffic. Manufactures may install images of pictograms that are proprietary to a device (e.g., size, colour, image format, etc.).

To meet the requirements of the worldwide market, the common pictogram set is divided into several classes. For example, some pictograms have operational, cultural and time independent semantics and are intended for general use. Other pictograms are included in a glossary of symbols representing certain embodiments.

Conformance: A MAE User Agent MAY support pictograms [PICT] (MAESpec-PICT-C-001).

Nevertheless, the reference document is not listed in OMA Browsing V2.4 anymore, but was in OMA Browsing V2.3, also V2.2 and V2.1, as WAP Pictogram Specification.

In this repository, /Affiliates/WAP.html still references “Browsing 2.2 Enabler” for a newer version of Pictogram than the original 2001 release, but the link to http://www.openmobilealliance.org/release_program/index.html has too many redirects. http://www.oma-works.org/Technical/releaseprogram.aspx works however and I don’t see any big changes in this 2006 version.

Anyhow, shouldn’t Pictogram just be replaced by a mapping table to Unicode emojis? It seems as if such was planned originally, cf. L2/00-218 in the Unicode L2 Document Register for 2000. Many mappings are straightforward, others have two or more possible matching Unicode characters, but some seem to be missing altogether. I have documented my best guesses both as a tab-separated file and as as a table in a Markdown document here at Github. I would be grateful for any corrections or an official reference.

[kay-fritz]

Now that CSS3 DS is more or less finished (only validation and then hopefully only a few fixes are outstanding) and since html5 DS is already finished for a year the plan is to create a new version. I would go for OMA Browsing V3, but that needs to be discussed.

[seanmcilroy29]

Issue is 2 years old and out of date so will be closed

[Crissov]

Why is the issue of of date? Just because it is two years old?