<div dir="ltr"><div>A proposal has to be recommended by the Script Ad-Hoc (now Script Encoding Working Group) and reviewed by the UTC (Unicode Technical Committee) before it becomes part of the Standard. The Script Ad-Hoc's response to that particular proposal is found in <a href="https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17153-script-ad-hoc-rec.pdf">L2/17-153</a> (section 16, page 11). It was not recommended for encoding; instead, they recommended their feedback to be sent to the author of the proposal. I don't know if that ever happened or if the authors ever addressed it or submitted a revised proposal.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>-- Rebecca Bettencourt</div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM t.b.y.taoboyu--- via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-3661506086273327314">




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    I am seeking the symbol on the <code>Fn</code> key and have find it encoded as
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L2/17-072</a>.</div>
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Since then, ISO/IEC 9995-7 was developed further. The last version of the complete standard dates from 2009. Thereafter, an amendment was released in 2012 with several new symbols reflecting the need of multilingual keyboards in support of the cultural diversity.
 Such keyboards are easily accessible especially when not being confined to physical keyboards with fixed engravings.</div>
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However this code has been representing <code>MASK WORK SYMBOL</code> since <a title="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-13.0/U130-1F100.pdf" id="m_-3661506086273327314LPlnk853310" href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-13.0/U130-1F100.pdf" target="_blank">
Version 13.0</a>.</div>
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<a style="text-decoration:none" href="https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-13.0/U130-1F100.pdf" id="m_-3661506086273327314LPUrlAnchor393742" target="_blank">^h=2 (y WØ©¢ G$M Ô h NéP> öÚª D ¾r Ç fÌa,õIò.ÎDßAZÍáù kY0Ë Uì%úØÓV dßg - Unicode</a></div>
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^h=2 (y WØ©¢ G$M Ô h NéP> öÚª D ¾r Ç fÌa,õIò.ÎDßAZÍáù kY0Ë Uì%úØÓV dßg</div>
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And <code>U+1F1AE</code> and <code>U+1F1AF</code>, representing <code>SANS-SERIF CAPITAL U ENCLOSING ZERO-NINE</code> and
<code>SANS-SERIF CAPITAL U ENCLOSING ZERO-F</code> in the proposal, have not been assigned even in the
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latest release, Version 16.0</a>.</div>
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Range: 1F100–1F1FF This file contains an excerpt from the character code tables and list of character names for</div>
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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35,</div>
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I have noted <a id="m_-3661506086273327314LPlnkOWAe8919eef-d810-afac-6137-38741aba0ea4" href="https://www.iso.org/standard/90275.html" target="_blank">
ISO/IEC CD 9995-7</a> under development.</div>
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Within the general scope described in ISO/IEC 9995 1, this document specifies symbols for functions found on any type of numeric, alphanumeric or composite keyboards. Each of these symbols is intended to be considered as universal and non-language related equivalent
 of names for the function they represent. Names of functions and descriptions are given in English and French.</div>
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