Per se, the level of use is quite respectable. On emojitracker (not yet updated with newer emoji), :dollar: is at #330/845, and the lowest of the group, :yen:, is #688. My calculations based on the usage count and population of the countries using corresponding signs shows that :dollar: is way out of proportion, which means that it is used by default quite a lot. Speaking of "enclosing banknote" vs variation selector, the shorthands (:dollar:, :yen:, etc.) suggest that Twitter treats the banknote emoji as emoji-style of the currency signs, and a new character would be superfluous.
Leo On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Doug Ewell <[email protected]> wrote: > On February 8, Leo Broukhis wrote: > > > This is clearly an incomplete set. It makes sense to have a generic > > "enclosing banknote" emoji character which, when combined with a > > currency sign, would produce the corresponding banknote, to forestall > > requests for individual emoji for banknotes with remaining currency > > signs. > > I'm not wildly opposed to these -- maybe more so to the more recent idea > of variation selectors to transform currency symbols into emoji -- but I > wonder if there is really a demand for such images, especially at the > small size normally associated with emoji, or if this is simply > speculation. At least in principle, "expected usage level" is supposed > to be one factor that speaks for or against encoding. > > -- > Doug Ewell | http://ewellic.org | Thornton, CO 🇺🇸 > > >
