Can 0023 FE0F be an emoji?

[Manuel Strehl]

Hi,

according to TR 51 and the emoji test file,
https://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/15.1/emoji-test.txt
these are not fully qualified emojis. That means, concerning Unicode it 
is not recommended for general interchange (“RGI”) to render them as emojis.

And in fact, some vendors (Google, Samsung, MS) do, some don’t (Apple, 
Facebook) render them as emojis:

https://emojipedia.org/digit-one#designs

Cheers,
Manuel

Am 19.05.24 um 20:31 schrieb Jules Bertholet via Unicode:
> The following sequences are listed in emoji-variation-sequences.txt
> (https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt): 
>
>
> > 0023 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) NUMBER SIGN
> > 002A FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) ASTERISK
> > 0030 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) DIGIT ZERO
> > 0031 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) DIGIT ONE
> > 0032 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) DIGIT TWO
> > 0033 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) DIGIT THREE
> > 0034 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) DIGIT FOUR
> > 0035 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) DIGIT FIVE
> > 0036 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) DIGIT SIX
> > 0037 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) DIGIT SEVEN
> > 0038 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) DIGIT EIGHT
> > 0039 FE0F ; emoji style; # (1.1) DIGIT NINE
>
> However, these sequences do not appear in emoji-sequences.txt
> (https://unicode.org/Public/emoji/15.1/emoji-sequences.txt),
> except in combination with U+20E3 as part of an Emoji_Keycap_Sequence.
>
> Is it permissible to treat the sequence 0023 FE0F (without trailing 
> U+20E3)
> as an emoji? Is it recommended? Is it required?
>
> Jules Bertholet
>
>