Wow, thank you. I was amazed to know how those symbols slipped in the gap so perfectly as if they were there from the beginning. I looked back at Unicode 2.0 chart and there was only reserved blank after Zapf Dingbats got unified with Wingdings symbols.
2016-12-26 4:29 GMT+09:00 Markus Scherer <[email protected]>: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Yifán Wáng <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm curious about the reason why U+270C VICTORY HAND ✌ has >> standardized text and emoji styles defined but not with U+270A RAISED >> FIST ✊ and U+270B RAISED HAND ✋. >> http://www.unicode.org/Public/9.0.0/ucd/StandardizedVariants.txt >> >> I personally can't think of their usage disparity, so what is the >> rationale behind it? >> > > As far as I remember, the victory hand is an original Dingbat symbol and > got also unified with an emoji from the Japanese carrier sets. The > variation selectors let you pick Dingbat style vs. emoji style. > > The other two were not Dingbats but only came from the Japanese carrier > sets, for playing rock-paper-scissors. > > http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a= > %5B%5Cu2700-%5Cu270f%5D&g=age&i= > > markus >
