From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 11:56:37 CST
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:35 AM, <vunzndi@vfemail.net> wrote:
> As the proposal stands a number of the emoji are in fact duplicates of
> existing unicode characters - the principle of non duplication has not
> always been applied.
>
> Take for example:-
> "e-B45
> U+1F4FD CROSS MARK
> Temporary Notes: bad; NO GOOD, not approved; X in tic tac toe. Tentatively
> disunified from U+2715"
>
> vs
>
> "e-B53
> U+2716 HEAVY MULTIPLICATION X
> Temporary Notes: Unified with U+2716"
>
> It is hard to see why one is unified and the other is not.
The fine details of individual character unification isn't really
relevant to the discussion at hand; the Unicode Emoji lists are a much
better place. The fact is that the unification rules were applied,
even if you disagree with some of the details.
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