From: Doug Ewell (dewell@roadrunner.com)
Date: Sun Feb 17 2008 - 13:05:20 CST
Leo Broukhis <leob at mailcom dot com> wrote:
> U+263A ☺ : U+2639 ☹ = U+263B ☻ : U+???? ?
There is no U+xxxx BLACK FROWNING FACE because no such character existed
in the legacy character sets that were used to help populate the
Miscellaneous Symbols block.
The current proposal [1] to encode emoji, or Japanese picture characters
used in cell phone text messages, includes over three dozen variations
on the smiley, such as ANGRY FACE, ANGUISHED FACE, ASTONISHED FACE, and
so forth. There are additional symbols for heads, separate from the
smileys, including BOYS HEAD and GIRLS HEAD and MAN WITH LONG MOUSTACHE
and WOMAN WITH BUNNY EARS. However, there don't appear to be any
specifically "black" facial images, so the imbalance claimed by Leo will
likely continue.
[1] http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2008/08080r-emoji-proposal.pdf
(Unicode Consortium members' password required)
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