Glyph changes from 2009Feb Symbols Subcommittee

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Glyph changes agreed on at the UTC Symbols Subcommittee meeting 2009 Feb 3.

A. Flags e-4E5 through e-4EE
Change glyph for each to dashed square (as with U+FFFC, U+1680) containing the 
2-letter 
country code inside (JP, US, FR, etc.)

B. MAP OF JAPAN e-4C7
Name will be changed to SKETCH OF JAPAN; change glyph to be more sketch-like, 
simpler and 
less detailed; delete small islands, etc.

C. Representations of emoji that are distinct only in color (red, blue, green, 
yellow, purple).
For several of these the glyphs we will avoid glyphs that are either solid 
black or solid white (with 
outline); instead we will use various densities of patterns to provide darker 
or lighter shading, 
something similar to what is currently done with U+2591, U+2592, U+2593. The 
same pattern 
should be used to designate the same colors in the different emoji to be 
modified in the 
following list (note that some others, including several that are being 
unified, will NOT be 
changed).

C1. Hearts e-B13 through e-B16 (names to be changed to HEART-1 through 
HEART-4), use 
different density patterns to indicate the various colors (blue, green, yellow, 
purple).

C2. Books e-4FF through e-501 (names to be changed to BOOK-1 through BOOK-3), 
use 
different density patterns to indicate the various colors (green, blue, red) as 
above. Also remove 
the labels from the covers of these three books (to make them less specific as 
to which side the 
book opens on, and to provide more area for the shading to make it more 
distinct).

C3. Apples e-051, e-05B (names to be changed to APPLE-1 and APPLE-2), use 
shading or 
stippling (e.g. as with the strawberry) to make them distinct (avoid all white 
or all black). Also, 
make them look less like the Apple Inc. logo and more like the other fruit 
glyphs (something like 
the shaded apple designs from an earlier version of the font, but perhaps not 
such a smooth 
grayscale - maybe a more stippled or cross-hatched shading).

C4. Circle e-B63 (name will change to LARGE CIRCLE-1), diameter should match 
e-B64, use a 
semi-dense pattern to provide shading (as with the hearts and books listed 
above).

C5. Diamonds e-B73 through e-B76: e-B76 will be disunified from U+2B29 and 
names for the 4 
will change to LARGE DIAMOND-1, LARGE DIAMOND-2, SMALL DIAMOND-1, SMALL DIAMOND-
2. The DIAMOND-1 characters (e-B73, e-B75) should have one density of shading 
(for orange as 
emoji), the two DIAMOND-2 characters (e-B74, e-B76) should have a different 
density of 
shading (for purple as emoji).

C6. Triangles e-B78, e-B79, e-B01, e-B02. These will all have CHECKERED removed 
from the 
names, and -1 appended to the names. Change the checkered pattern to whatever 
is used in e-
B63 (to indicate red as emoji).

D. e-4BB (currently CHAPEL) is being unified with the new Unicode 5.2 character 
U+26EA 
CHURCH (ARIB 9114) so the glyph can match that one (from the Amendment 6 FPDAM 
document).

E. e-82A WEDDING, delete the cross and instead add a steeple. Keep the hearts.

F. e-05A PEACH, make it not look like buttocks (rotate 180 degrees?)

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pedb...@apple.com on 4 Feb 2009 at 4:08

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Oops, two corrections:

C4. I forgot to mention that e-B64 is being disunified from U+2B24, so it needs 
a new glyph. e-B63 and e-
B64 should have shading to distinguish original red and blue emoji  
(respectively)

C6. e-B02 was an error, should be e-B00.

Note that besides changes to existing glyphs, we are adding 2 new glyphs to the 
font, for e-B64 (item C4) 
and e-B76 (item C5), and we are deleting one existing glyph for e-4BB (item D).

Original comment by pedb...@apple.com on 4 Feb 2009 at 5:13

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All fixed in Apple Emoji Font 1.0d6e4

Original comment by loft...@apple.com on 5 Feb 2009 at 12:15

• Changed state: Fixed

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On my system, it seems like there is no glyph for e-B64 nor e-B76 (the two new 
ones).
Please verify.

Original comment by markus.icu on 5 Feb 2009 at 12:50

• Changed state: Agreed

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False alarm. After restarting my browser, the new glyphs are displayed.

Original comment by markus.icu on 5 Feb 2009 at 5:17

• Changed state: Verified