Munzir Taha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I tried to insert a smiling face from a Unicode font (Arial Unicode > MS), I met across a white (U+2639) and a black (U+263A) one. Also, I found a > black frowning face (U+263B).
Actually, they are: U+2639 WHITE FROWNING FACE U+263A WHITE SMILING FACE U+263B BLACK SMILING FACE > Where is the white frowning face (Why not U+263C)? Probably nobody ever submitted a formal request for it, and it probably doesn't appear in any legacy character sets with which Unicode needed to maintain round-trip capability. (For that matter, U+263A and U+263B are in MS-DOS CP 437, but where did U+2639 come from?) It's not really a goal of Unicode to encode every possible smiley, emoticon or other pseudo-text iconic image. The ones that are already encoded are there for compatibility reasons. Despite my frequent use of "\u263a" on this list, the "standard" Unicode smiley is probably U+003A U+002D U+0029. (Please, let's not start a big long off-topic thread about this!) -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
