James,
On 11/23/2016 7:15 AM, James Kass wrote:
How many signatures on a petition would be needed before
Unicode would consider adding a non-existent character to the
repertoire?
I would say somewhat more than zero (which could hardly be considered a
petition) and less than 7,466,363,069 (current estimate of the world
population).
BTW, from the selection factors page:
http://www.unicode.org/emoji/selection.html#Selection_Factors_Requested
"Petitions are only considered as possible indications of potential
frequency of usage, among the other selection factors."
BTW, U+1F984 UNICORN FACE was a "non-existent character" for a
non-existent animal before it made the selection review cut and was
actually encoded as a new emoji. That doesn't mean, a priori, that it
was a bad choice to encode. Nor did the existence or non-existence of a
petition to encode this particular non-existent animal as an emoji
character make much difference, anyway.
--Ken
