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Additional Symbols for Legacy Computing characters which are (currently) unified with emoji. #2136

Open jmcwilliams403 opened 8 months ago

jmcwilliams403 commented 8 months ago

The following characters are omitted from present and future Symbols For Legacy Computing {Supplement} blocks and are unified with emoji:

Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement, gap at U+1CCFA-1CCFF
🐍   U+1F40D SNAKE
🛸   U+1F6F8 FLYING SAUCER
👃   U+1F443 NOSE

Symbols for Legacy Computing Supplement, end of range
🍷   U+1F377 WINE GLASS
🏢   U+1F3E2 OFFICE BUILDING
🌳   U+1F333 DECIDUOUS TREE
🍎   U+1F34E RED APPLE
🍒   U+1F352 CHERRIES
🍓   U+1F353 STRAWBERRY

Symbols for Legacy Computing
🔔   U+1F514 BELL

There exists this proposal to Unicode to disunify these symbols, but as of currently, the new codepoints are only preliminarily assigned and not formally accepted. However, even if they were accepted, I believe it would be useful to have the existing currently-unified characters in the font in parallel as compatibility aliases.

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be5invis commented 8 months ago

I may perhaps wait for a final Unicode update (U16 I think).