On 20.05.2026 10:11, Christoph Päper via Unicode wrote:
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?
As far as I know, the width of emoji is aligned with ideographic fullwidth pretty much everywhere. So the question "why not use U+3000?" is almost certainly going to pop up.
Also I wonder if it is an emoji at all. It could be interpreted as an emoji without visible glyph outlines, but it could also be considered a regular whitespace character that has the width of an emoji.
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?
Line break behaviour perhaps? Regards, Alexander
