Re: Hand characters

From: Doug Ewell (doug@ewellic.org)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2009 - 20:05:47 CST

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Hans Aberg <haberg at math dot su dot se> wrote:

> So there seems some hand character variations missing:
> WHITE UP POINTING THUMB
> WHITE DOWN POINTING THUMB
> WHITE UP POINTING MIDDLE
> WHITE DOWN POINTING MIDDLE
> ...

The first two are included in the emoji proposal. Like many other
symbols in the proposal, they have a clearly defined semantic meaning
(i.e. not just pictures of something) and no dependency on color or
animation for their identity. Consequently, I have no problem with
adding them to Unicode.

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