Well, there are several emoji for various items encountered in daily life, and I think the reasoning is that allergens are important things to refer to because of their health effects. It's a bit of a leap to say that means there's a need for dedicated pictograms though. I agree, it does seem to be putting the cart before the horse.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:00 AM, Michael Everson <ever...@evertype.com> wrote: > 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/ > >