Re: Emoji’s

[Christoph Päper via Unicode]

jillian mestel:
> 
> I was very disappointed to learn that there are no emojis of portraying a dominant left hand.

See <http://unicode.org/emoji/selection.html> for the general emoji proposal process. This would actually not need a new character being assigned a code point, because existing �� U+1F58E could be reused to contrast with ✍️ U+270D. It would just need the Emoji property being set which can be done with any update to UTS#51. 

UTS#51 11.0 (beta) introduces ZWJ sequences with left and right arrows (⬅️ U+2B05, ➡️ U+27A1) as suffixed determiners to explicitly indicate directional orientation, but this would be an inappropriate solution for this case.

The custom emoji sets by Samsung and LG already include colorful graphics for U+1F58E. UTC should adopt a policy that grants any pictographic character the Emoji property if it is supported by at least two major vendors. ("Major vendor" would need a proper definition.) These 20 characters would be affected at the moment if my records are correct and complete:

- U+2610 ☐: BALLOT BOX
- U+2612 ☒: BALLOT BOX WITH X
- U+261C ☜: WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX [L2/17-421]
- U+261E ☞: WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX [L2/17-421]
- U+261F ☟: WHITE DOWN POINTING INDEX [L2/17-421]
- U+1F323 ��: WHITE SUN
- U+1F544 ��: NOTCHED RIGHT SEMICIRCLE WITH THREE DOTS
- U+1F546 ��: WHITE LATIN CROSS
- U+1F547 ��: HEAVY LATIN CROSS
- U+1F568 ��: RIGHT SPEAKER
- U+1F569 ��: RIGHT SPEAKER WITH ONE SOUND WAVE
- U+1F56A ��: RIGHT SPEAKER WITH THREE SOUND WAVES
- U+1F56D ��: RINGING BELL [L2/17-240]
- U+1F58E ��: LEFT WRITING HAND
- U+1F591 ��: REVERSED RAISED HAND WITH FINGERS SPLAYED
- U+1F592 ��: REVERSED THUMBS UP SIGN
- U+1F593 ��: REVERSED THUMBS DOWN SIGN
- U+1F5E2 ��: LIPS
- U+1F6C6 ��: TRIANGLE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS
- U+1F6C7 ��: PROHIBITED SIGN

  [L2/17-240]: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17240-ringing-bell-chg.pdf
  [L2/17-421]: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17421r-emoji-changes.pdf