I submitted a proposal to emojify the left writing hand code point. -Manish
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 5:00 PM, Christoph Päper via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > jillian mestel: > > > > I was very disappointed to learn that there are no emojis of portraying > a dominant left hand. > > See <http://unicode.org/emoji/selection.html> for the general emoji > proposal process. This would actually not need a new character being > assigned a code point, because existing 🖎 U+1F58E could be reused to > contrast with ✍️ U+270D. It would just need the Emoji property being set > which can be done with any update to UTS#51. > > UTS#51 11.0 (beta) introduces ZWJ sequences with left and right arrows (⬅️ > U+2B05, ➡️ U+27A1) as suffixed determiners to explicitly indicate > directional orientation, but this would be an inappropriate solution for > this case. > > The custom emoji sets by Samsung and LG already include colorful graphics > for U+1F58E. UTC should adopt a policy that grants any pictographic > character the Emoji property if it is supported by at least two major > vendors. ("Major vendor" would need a proper definition.) These 20 > characters would be affected at the moment if my records are correct and > complete: > > - U+2610 ☐: BALLOT BOX > - U+2612 ☒: BALLOT BOX WITH X > - U+261C ☜: WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX [L2/17-421] > - U+261E ☞: WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX [L2/17-421] > - U+261F ☟: WHITE DOWN POINTING INDEX [L2/17-421] > - U+1F323 🌣: WHITE SUN > - U+1F544 🕄: NOTCHED RIGHT SEMICIRCLE WITH THREE DOTS > - U+1F546 🕆: WHITE LATIN CROSS > - U+1F547 🕇: HEAVY LATIN CROSS > - U+1F568 🕨: RIGHT SPEAKER > - U+1F569 🕩: RIGHT SPEAKER WITH ONE SOUND WAVE > - U+1F56A 🕪: RIGHT SPEAKER WITH THREE SOUND WAVES > - U+1F56D 🕭: RINGING BELL [L2/17-240] > - U+1F58E 🖎: LEFT WRITING HAND > - U+1F591 🖑: REVERSED RAISED HAND WITH FINGERS SPLAYED > - U+1F592 🖒: REVERSED THUMBS UP SIGN > - U+1F593 🖓: REVERSED THUMBS DOWN SIGN > - U+1F5E2 🗢: LIPS > - U+1F6C6 🛆: TRIANGLE WITH ROUNDED CORNERS > - U+1F6C7 🛇: PROHIBITED SIGN > > [L2/17-240]: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17240-ringing-bell-chg.pdf > [L2/17-421]: http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17421r-emoji-changes.pdf > >