Hoefler Text Ornaments

[James Kass]

On 2022-07-26 3:49 PM, Steve Downey via Unicode wrote:
> For another decorative set to be encoded, I
> think there would need to be evidence of a body of text using those symbols
> for which there is a desire to re-encode today, such that without encoding
> the symbols meaning would be lost. It's a deliberately high bar.

There were several steps along the way to getting webdings/wingdings 
encoded in The Standard.  Here's a link to an updated proposal from 2011:

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2011/11344-wingdings.pdf

The introductory text delves into the rationale for encoding and might 
be of interest to anyone contemplating submitting proposals for similar 
additions.