I have a less disruptive proposal than to encode an unprecedented combining emoji. How about adding variation sequences <currency sign> + U+FE0F VS16 to signify BANKNOTE with <currency sign> ?
Leo On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 1:38 AM, "Jörg Knappen" <[email protected]> wrote: > For the pound emoji, throw in ~90M Egyptians. > > --Jörg Knappen > > *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 09. Februar 2016 um 23:46 Uhr > *Von:* "Leo Broukhis" <[email protected]> > *An:* "Mark Davis ☕️" <[email protected]> > *Cc:* "unicode Unicode Discussion" <[email protected]> > *Betreff:* Re: Enclosing BANKNOTE emoji? > The emojiexpress.com site is useful to check which new emoji or > combinations people actually use, but the stats are likely skewed by only > measuring input from one platform. > > Another way to look at the emojitracker.com stats: > > 339M people in the Eurozone : 389K uses of Euro emoji > 126M people in Japan : 354K uses of Yen emoji > 140M people in UK + Turkey (likely users of the Pound emoji as a stand-in > for Lira) : 515K uses of pound emoji > > The total is 605M people : 1258K uses of non-dollar emoji > Assuming the same average frequency of use, 2933K uses of the dollar emoji > would be produced by 1411M people, out of which us + canada + mexico + > australia (500M) + other countries using $ as (part of) the sign for > their currency are way less than a half. This means that substantially more > than 500M people are using the dollar emoji by default, instead of emoji of > their national currencies. Assuming a lesser frequency of use will result > in a greater estimate of the affected population. > > Leo > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Mark Davis ☕️ <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Look at http://www.emojixpress.com/stats/. The stats are different, >> since they collect data from keyboards not twitter posts, but they have a >> nice button to view only the news emoji. >> >> (The numbers on the new ones will be smaller, just because it takes time >> for systems to support them, and people to start using them. However, they >> bear out my predication that the most popular would be the eyes-rolling >> face). >> >> >> Mark >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> A caveat about using emojitracker.com : it doesn't count newer emoji >>> yet (e.g. U+1F37E bottle with popping cork is absent), thus, when they are >>> added, their counts will be skewed. >>> >>> Leo >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:00 AM, Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Thank you for the links, quite mesmerizing! >>>> >>>> On emojitracker.com (cumulative counts, but only on twitter, AFAICS), >>>> U+1F4B5 ($) had quite a respectable count of 2932622 (well above the middle >>>> of the page, around 70%ile), U+1F4B7 (pound) had 514536 (around 30%ile), >>>> and U+1F4B4 and U+1F4B6 had around 353K and 388K resp. (around 20%ile, but >>>> 10x more than the lowest counts, and about the same frequency as various >>>> individual clock faces). >>>> >>>> It is quite evident that the dollar banknote emoji serves as a stand-in >>>> for at least half a dozen of various currencies. >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Mark Davis ☕️ <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I would suggest that you first gather statistics and present >>>>> statistics on how often the current combinations are used compared to >>>>> other >>>>> emoji, eg by consulting sources such as: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.emojixpress.com/stats/ >>>>> or >>>>> http://emojitracker.com/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Mark >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:34 PM, Leo Broukhis <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> There are >>>>>> >>>>>> 💴 U+01F4B4 Banknote With Yen Sign >>>>>> 💵 U+01F4B5 Banknote With Dollar Sign >>>>>> 💶 U+01F4B6 Banknote With Euro Sign >>>>>> 💷 U+01F4B7 Banknote With Pound Sign >>>>>> >>>>>> This is clearly an incomplete set. It makes sense to have a generic >>>>>> "enclosing banknote" emoji character which, when combined with a >>>>>> currency sign, would produce the corresponding banknote, to forestall >>>>>> requests for individual emoji for banknotes with remaining currency >>>>>> signs. >>>>>> >>>>>> Leo >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>
