Left-handed – several hand emojis show the left hand on some platforms, but there’s no right–left pair, except for ✍️ and 🖎 U+1F58E where the latter is not an emoji yet. Therefore, this may not require a new code point being (proposed and) assigned, but just one gaining the necessary attribute.
Nib and Magnifying Glass emojis are already available facing in either direction: right-hand 🖋🔍 and left-hand ✒️🔎.
The beta of Emoji 11.0 (UTS#51) introduces the concept of ZWJ sequences to indicate the direction of emojis, but no emojis will be recommended to be supported with this in the initial release due June 2018.
Left-handed – several hand emojis show the left hand on some platforms, but there’s no right–left pair, except for ✍️ and 🖎 U+1F58E where the latter is not an emoji yet. Therefore, this may not require a new code point being (proposed and) assigned, but just one gaining the necessary attribute.
Nib and Magnifying Glass emojis are already available facing in either direction: right-hand 🖋🔍 and left-hand ✒️🔎.
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