L2/07-274R Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 From: Mark Davis Subject: Symbols draft resolution In view of widespread use of the emoji and television symbols under discussion, and industry requirements for interoperability, the UTC supports the work being done in the symbols subcommittee on encoding those symbols. In terms of direction for the work going forward: 1. The general principles enumerated in the background section of L2/07-257 should be followed. 2. The subcommittee should consider where additional principles should be added based on the WG2 Principles and Procedures and other sources. 3. Where there is an intersection of symbols between the TV set proposal and the emoji proposal, characters should be considered for unification. 4. The subcommittee should call out specific cases, such as lightning, which could possibly be unified. It should be careful to justify the rationale for such cases to avoid problems such as have been encountered with the history of glyph changes for U+231B (⌛) HOURGLASS and U+29B7 (⧖) WHITE HOURGLASS. 5. The combining circle / box should not be used where it can't be applied consistently. 6. The subcommittee should review the document on Public Signage (L2/06-272), to see which of these symbols may also be considered appropriate for encoding. 7. The UTC will roadmap a section of Plane 1 for additional symbols of this type which do not fit on the BMP.