Reminder Ribbon U+1F397

[Rebecca T via Unicode]

>
> Perhaps a larger set of ribbon characters, with defined colors for
> each, is called for?


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But uh, seriously, the ribbon was encoded in the Great Wingdings and
Webdings Migration of 2011 (see L2/12-368
<https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2012/12368-n4384.pdf> p.21) and I would
imagine that future ribbon characters would be rejected precisely
*because *they
“have different associations when used in various campaigns and movements.”

On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 2:08 AM Daniel R. Tobias via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> The Unicode standard for the Reminder Ribbon character (U+1F397) does
> not appear to specify or suggest a color for the ribbon (the glyph
> shown in the code chart is black, like other characters there).
> Platforms that support this character among the other emojis do
> however assign a color to it, as seen in character pick lists as well
> as where the character is shown in sent or received messages. This,
> however, is not done with any consistency; different platforms have
> used yellow, blue, and red ribbons, as shown here:
>
> https://emojipedia.org/reminder-ribbon/
>
> Different colors have different associations when used in various
> campaigns and movements; some are listed here:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awareness_ribbons
>
> This can produce confusion when somebody uses the character (e.g., in
> a tweet or text message) in association with a campaign that uses the
> color that happens to match that used in the sender's platform (for
> instance, yellow ribbons have been in current use to call for release
> of Catalan prisoners held by Spain) but a reader of the message on a
> different platform sees it differently, with a color that might have
> different associations.
>
> Perhaps a larger set of ribbon characters, with defined colors for
> each, is called for? Or is this better done by creating composite
> characters with the existing ribbon character combined with a
> color-specifying code point?
>
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