Re: Origins of ⌚ U+231A WATCH and ⌛ U+231B HOURGLASS

[M. Pauluk]

Thanks Ken! I had already checked XCCS and IBM code pages too, ⌚ U+231A
WATCH and ⌛ U+231B HOURGLASS really couldn't have originated there. Is
there any documentation of this selection process? I would also very much
like to know why some symbols like U+262E PEACE SYMBOL or U+2668 HOT
SPRINGS were added right from the beginning, before there were even any
kind of pressure to encode pictographs! Those initial blocks of symbols
remain the most obscure for me...

On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:56 PM Ken Whistler via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> Nope. Check their Age (see DerivedAge.txt in the UCD). Their Age is 1.1.
> And in fact, they go back even further -- they were published in Unicode
> 1.0 in 1991. They predate the Japanese telcom vendor sets that were
> incorporated in Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
>
> They were later mapped to KDDI and DoCoMo emoji in 2007 (see L2/07-257),
> so WATCH and HOURGLASS did exist in those sets, but that wasn't their
> original source for encoding in Unicode.
>
> I don't think they were in XCCS (the Xerox character set) or in IBM sets.
> They might have been picked up as well-known computer interface symbols
> from the 80's.
>
> --Ken
> On 12/30/2020 4:18 PM, abrahamgross--- via Unicode wrote:
>
> Id assume these emoji are from the original japanese set
>
>
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