Similarity or containment in the same block as current emoji characters is not sufficient grounds for changing characters to have the Emoji property (and thus being eligible for the text/emoji VS).
If there is a particular set of existing characters that you would like to propose to become Emoji (eg, to have the Emoji binary property), see information at http://unicode.org/emoji/selection.html#existing for how to do so. Mark On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Christoph Päper < christoph.pae...@crissov.de> wrote: > <http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-8.html#def_ > emoji_variation_sequence> > > > 2640 FE0E; text style; # FEMALE SIGN > > 2640 FE0F; emoji style; # FEMALE SIGN > > 2642 FE0E; text style; # MALE SIGN > > 2642 FE0F; emoji style; # MALE SIGN > > Since U+240 and U+2642 double as symbols for the planets (and ancient > gods) Venus and Mars, respectively, users will rightfully expect VS-16 to > have an effect on the other planet symbols as well (probably including > U+2647 Pluto). > > Both symbols are also sometimes used to represent Friday and Tuesday, > respectively, so some users may expect the symbols for the other 5 days of > the week also react on U+FE0E/F. > > 1. Monday ☽ U+263D Moon or ☾ U+263E > 2. Tuesday ♂ U+2642 Mars > 3. Wednesday ☿ U+263F Mercury > 4. Thursday ♃ U+2643 Jupiter > 5. Friday ♀ U+2640 Venus > 6. Saturday ♄ U+2644 Saturn > 7. Sunday ☉ U+2609 Sun or ☼ U+263C > > U+2640/2 are also part of common sets of gender, sex and sexuality symbols > which, again, some users will expect to have emoji forms now and – be > prepared for the 🌈💩🌪 – also work in ZWJ or Open Type ligature sequences. > (I’m not sure how lesbian or gay versions of emojis, as proposed before in > L2/15-013 for instance, could become anything other than stereotypical > through offensive.) The real-world use may be a bit different from what the > annotations in the standard say, e.g. distinction of transgender and > intersex or sexuality and gender identity: > > > * ⚢ U+26A2 Doubled Female Sign > > = lesbianism > > * ⚣ U+26A3 Doubled Male Sign > > • a glyph variant has the two circles on the same line > > = male homosexuality > > * ⚤ U+26A4 Interlocked Female and Male Sign > > • a glyph variant has the two circles on the same line > > = bisexuality > > * ⚥ U+26A5 Male and Female Sign > > = transgendered sexuality > > = hermaphrodite (in entomology) > > * ⚦ U+26A6 Male with Stroke Sign > > = transgendered sexuality > > * ⚧ U+26A7 Male with Stroke and Male and Female Sign > > = transgendered sexuality > > * ⚲ U+26B2 Neuter > > Lastly, the 2 signs are also recognized by Unicode to be alchemical > symbols of copper and iron, respectively, but since that set is much larger > and even more esoteric I expect not much demand for emoji versions of all > of them. > > In conclusion, I see no good way other than to add a lot of additional > codepoints from the Miscellaneous Symbols block to StandardizedVariants.txt. > > Cheers > > Christoph >
