Dear list members Last year I had drafted a proposal for adding a (White) Space Emoji character to Unicode, but unfortunately failed to meet the submission deadline. Since the process started again in April, I am now revising the document and was wondering again: Will it be declined simply because it fails to meet the formal requirements? <https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html> As an invisible character with the metrics of an emoji glyph, I can hardly provide any evidence of frequency by using the means described in the document. (I think they are severely flawed and inappropriate for assessing the value of other proposed emojis as well, but that is not the point here.) Do you have any advice on how to argue here?
Also, which character name should I suggest? - EMOJI SPACE - SPACE EMOJI - WHITE SPACE EMOJI - WHITESPACE EMOJI - SPACING EMOJI - TRANSPARENT SQUARE EMOJI - INVISIBLE SQUARE EMOJI - … Do I explicitly need to refute possible alternatives like U+0020+FE0F (SPACE + VS-16) or U+3000+FE0F (IDEOGRAHPIC SPACE + VS-16), or even plain U+3000? Within the block U+2000…206F “General Punctuation”, which, particularly in its first row, contains many whitespace characters, U+2065 is the only position left unassigned still. Would it be a likely one for an emoji character? (U+203C and U+203A are first-generation emojis.) Should I suggest any character properties that are different from normal emojis?
