Re: Emoji’s

[Manish Goregaokar via Unicode]

I submitted a proposal to emojify the left writing hand code point.

-Manish

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Christoph Päper via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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