In order to understand the status of any document in the registry, you need to also look at the minutes of the meeting where they are discussed, in this case: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16121.htm
What you see there is: B.14.3 Provisional value for Emoji property [Emoji SC/Edberg, L2/16-087 <http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetMatchingDocs.pl?L2/16-087>] B.14.3.1 Characters Proposed for Emoji=Provisional [Emoji SC/Edberg, L2/16-088 <http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetMatchingDocs.pl?L2/16-088>] Discussion. UTC took no action at this time. "Took no action" generally means "rejected". Mark On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Christoph Päper < christoph.pae...@crissov.de> wrote: > Christoph Päper <christoph.pae...@crissov.de>: > > > > I just learned that recent Samsung phones already contain emoji > representations for many of these symbols. > > And I’ve finally seen <http://www.unicode.org/L2/ > L2016/16087-provisional-value-for-emoji.pdf>. A pointer would have been > nice. >