[UTR#51-8] 1.4.3 Emoji Variation Sequences: Female/Venus and Male/Mars Signs

[Garth Wallace]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 4:07 AM, Christoph Päper <
christoph.paeper at crissov.de> wrote:

> Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper at crissov.de>:
> >
> > No, but many, perhaps most of ‘General Category = Other_Symbol (So),
> Script = Common, Bidirectional Category = Other_Neutral (ON)’ probably and
> few others (e.g. with ‘Bidirectional Category = L’). That’s little more
> than 3000 characters as of Unicode 9.0, which includes most existing emojis.
>
> I just learned that recent Samsung phones already contain emoji
> representations for many of these symbols.
>
> <https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/769125703866585088>
>
>
Samsung's emoji support is idiosyncratic, to say the least. They make the
Orthodox typikon symbols, BLACK SNOWMAN, MUSIC SHARP SIGN, and the I Ching
symbols into emoji for no apparent reason. It's especially baffling because
the "emoji" versions are still black and white, just with a gradient
applied to make them look shiny. WHITE CIRCLE WITH TWO DOTS is emoji on
Samsung...why? The chess symbols get turned into emoji, breaking figurine
notation. REVERSED ROTATED FLORAL HEART BULLET, which is an old
typographical dingbat (really a stylized ivy leaf, neither a heart nor,
strictly speaking, floral), gets put on a pink square. And that's not even
getting into the bizarre and misleading design decisions on the emoticon
emoji.
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