I do NOT understand the rationale. Emojis are not for labelling things. They’re for the playful expression of emotions.
Standardized symbols for allergens might be useful, if there were a textual use for them. > On 26 Jul 2015, at 06:05, Garth Wallace <gwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:43 AM, William_J_G Overington > <wjgo_10...@btinternet.com> wrote: >> Emoji characters for food allergens >> >> An interesting document entitled >> >> Preliminary proposal to add emoji characters for food allergens >> >> by Hiroyuki Komatsu >> >> was added into the UTC (Unicode Technical Committee) Document Register >> yesterday. >> >> http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15197-emoji-food-allergens.pdf >> >> This is a welcome development. > > I'm skeptical. I understand the rationale, but several of the proposed > characters are essentially SMALL PILE OF BROWN DOTS and would be > difficult to distinguish at typical sizes. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/