Similarity or containment in the same block as current emoji characters is
not sufficient grounds for changing characters to have the Emoji property
(and thus being eligible for the text/emoji VS).
If there is a particular set of existing characters that you would like to
propose to become Emoji (eg, to have the Emoji binary property), see
information at http://unicode.org/emoji/selection.html#existing for how to
do so.
Mark
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Christoph Päper <
christoph.paeper_at_crissov.de> wrote:
> <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-8.html#def_
> emoji_variation_sequence>
>
> > 2640 FE0E; text style; # FEMALE SIGN
> > 2640 FE0F; emoji style; # FEMALE SIGN
> > 2642 FE0E; text style; # MALE SIGN
> > 2642 FE0F; emoji style; # MALE SIGN
>
> Since U+240 and U+2642 double as symbols for the planets (and ancient
> gods) Venus and Mars, respectively, users will rightfully expect VS-16 to
> have an effect on the other planet symbols as well (probably including
> U+2647 Pluto).
>
> Both symbols are also sometimes used to represent Friday and Tuesday,
> respectively, so some users may expect the symbols for the other 5 days of
> the week also react on U+FE0E/F.
>
> 1. Monday ☽ U+263D Moon or ☾ U+263E
> 2. Tuesday ♂ U+2642 Mars
> 3. Wednesday ☿ U+263F Mercury
> 4. Thursday ♃ U+2643 Jupiter
> 5. Friday ♀ U+2640 Venus
> 6. Saturday ♄ U+2644 Saturn
> 7. Sunday ☉ U+2609 Sun or ☼ U+263C
>
> U+2640/2 are also part of common sets of gender, sex and sexuality symbols
> which, again, some users will expect to have emoji forms now and – be
> prepared for the 🌈💩🌪 – also work in ZWJ or Open Type ligature sequences.
> (I’m not sure how lesbian or gay versions of emojis, as proposed before in
> L2/15-013 for instance, could become anything other than stereotypical
> through offensive.) The real-world use may be a bit different from what the
> annotations in the standard say, e.g. distinction of transgender and
> intersex or sexuality and gender identity:
>
> > * ⚢ U+26A2 Doubled Female Sign
> > = lesbianism
> > * ⚣ U+26A3 Doubled Male Sign
> > • a glyph variant has the two circles on the same line
> > = male homosexuality
> > * ⚤ U+26A4 Interlocked Female and Male Sign
> > • a glyph variant has the two circles on the same line
> > = bisexuality
> > * ⚥ U+26A5 Male and Female Sign
> > = transgendered sexuality
> > = hermaphrodite (in entomology)
> > * ⚦ U+26A6 Male with Stroke Sign
> > = transgendered sexuality
> > * ⚧ U+26A7 Male with Stroke and Male and Female Sign
> > = transgendered sexuality
> > * ⚲ U+26B2 Neuter
>
> Lastly, the 2 signs are also recognized by Unicode to be alchemical
> symbols of copper and iron, respectively, but since that set is much larger
> and even more esoteric I expect not much demand for emoji versions of all
> of them.
>
> In conclusion, I see no good way other than to add a lot of additional
> codepoints from the Miscellaneous Symbols block to StandardizedVariants.txt.
>
> Cheers
>
> Christoph
>
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