Proposals for planet emoji were submitted in April 2017: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17100-planet-emoji-seq.pdf
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17100r-planet-emoji-seq.pdf I’m not sure what the result was. Anshu > On Jan 18, 2018, at 12:46 PM, Asmus Freytag (c) via Unicode > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/18/2018 10:01 AM, John H. Jenkins wrote: >> Well, you can go with Venus = white planet, Mercury = grey planet, Uranus = >> greenish planet, Neptune = bluish planet, Jupiter = striped planet. >> >> As you say, though, without a context, none of them convey much and Venus, >> at least, would just be a circle. >> >> Plus there's the question of the context in which someone would want to send >> little pictures of the planets. This sounds like it would be adding emoji >> just because. > > "Earth" as in "a blue ball in space" is something that reached iconic status > after the famous photo taken during the early Apollo missions. I could > definitely see that used in a variety of possible contexts. And the > recognition value is higher than for many recent emoji. > > Saturn, with its rings (even though it's no longer the only one known with > rings) also is iconic and highly recognizable. I lack imagination as to when > someone would want to use it in communication, but I have the same issue with > quite a few recent emoji, some of which are far less iconic or recognizable. > I think it does lend itself to describe a "non-earth" type planet, or even > the generic idea of a planet (as opposed to a star/sun). > > Mars and Venus have tons of connotations, which could be expressed by using > an emoji (as opposed to the astrological symbol for each), but only Mars is > reasonably recognizable without lots of pre-established context. That red > color. > > In a detailed enough rendering, Jupiter, as a shaded "ball" with stripes and > red dot would more recognizable than any of the remaining planets (on par or > better with many recent emoji), but I see even less scope for using it > metaphorically or in extended contexts. > > If someone were to make a proposal, I would suggest to them to limit it to > these four and to provide more of a suggestion as to how these might show up > in use. > > A./ >> >>> On Jan 18, 2018, at 10:44 AM, Asmus Freytag via Unicode >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On 1/18/2018 6:55 AM, Shriramana Sharma via Unicode wrote: >>>> Hello people. >>>> >>>> We have sun, earth and moon emoji (3 for the earth and more for the >>>> moon's phases). But we don't have emoji for the rest of the planets. >>>> >>>> We have astrological symbols for all the planets and a few >>>> non-existent imaginary "planets" as well. >>>> >>>> Given this, would it be impractical to encode proper emoji characters >>>> for the rest of the planets, at least the major ones whose physical >>>> characteristics are well known and identifiable? >>>> >>>> I mean for example identifying Sedna and Quaoar >>>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EightTNOs.png) is probably not >>>> going to be practical for all those other than astronomy buffs but the >>>> physical shapes of the major planets are known to all high school >>>> students… >>>> >>> Earth = blue planet (with clouds) >>> >>> Mars = red planet >>> >>> Saturn = planet with rings >>> >>> I don't think any of the other ones are identifiable in a context-free >>> setting, unless you draw a "big planet with red dot" for Jupiter. >>> >>> Earth would have to be depicted in a way that doesn't focus on >>> "hemispheres", or you miss the idea of it as "planet". >>> >>> >>> >>> A./ >>> >>> >>> >> >
