What's the process for proposing a symbol in the Unicode table?

[Freek Dijkstra]

All, thank you for the responses!

Indeed, this is a not an emoji, but a symbol very akin to a checkmark, 
which is found in the Dingbats table 
(https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf). According to a newspaper 
article on its history, it originates somewhere in the 19th century. So 
I'll follow the normal character proposal process.

In the mean time, I not only found the forms to fill in at 
https://www.unicode.org/L2/summary.html, I even find someone who was 
-just like me- "genuinely mildly irritated" with the fact that there was 
no codepoint in Unicode, and even created a website to fix this: 
https://unicode-krul.nl/en

I'll first try to contact them. I suspect that their genuine irritation 
was mild enough that is was eventually abandoned after seeing the effort 
it seemingly takes to get this done. :) Let's hope we're more successful 
this time.

With kind regards,
Freek Dijkstra


On 16-02-2024 18:38, Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote:
> Asmus Freytag wrote:
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>>>> 1. What is the process for submitting assigning a codepoint to a
>>>> symbol currently missing from the Unicode tables?
>>> http://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html
>> This assumes that the "symbol" is an emoji. Which the "Flourish of
>> approval" would not necessarily be, unless the idea was to create an
>> emoji for it, like the check mark.
> The OP’s post and references seem rather clear that it is intended as a normal character, for use with normal text, often handwritten, and used in plain-text environments (e.g. “mostly in elementary schools” and “for grading schoolwork”).
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> I would think the process for proposing normal characters would need to be followed, and this should not be proposed as an emoji for the purpose of getting it encoded via the easier emoji process.
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> Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org
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