Proposal for Encoding 10 Emoji Compatibility Symbols

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L2/09-___

Date: 2009-Aug-05

Authors:

Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Kat Momoi, Darick Tong (Google Inc.)

Yasuo Kida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.)

We propose adding 10 UCS characters for round-trip conversion with extended versions of Shift-JIS or ISO-2022-JP used by the Japanese cell phone carriers KDDI and Softbank.

These 10 characters are in very common use, and are interchanged with many other systems. They were included, with different proposed character names, in the Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols (N3583 = L2/09-026R) but left out of the consensus document from the 2009-April WG2 meeting after discussion and an inconclusive, three-way "straw poll".

Proposed characters:

1F565 EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-6 * represents KDDI Emoji #703 * represents Softbank Emoji #430 = e-4ED 1F566 EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-7 * represents KDDI Emoji #700 * represents Softbank Emoji #425 = e-4E8 1F567 EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-8 * represents KDDI Emoji #366 * represents Softbank Emoji #428 = e-4EB 1F568 EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-9 * represents KDDI Emoji #499 * represents Softbank Emoji #424 = e-4E7 1F569 EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-10 * represents KDDI Emoji #702 * represents Softbank Emoji #427 = e-4EA 1F56A EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-11 * represents KDDI Emoji #701 * represents Softbank Emoji #426 = e-4E9 1F56B EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-12 * represents KDDI Emoji #237 * represents Softbank Emoji #422 = e-4E5 1F56C EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-13 * represents KDDI Emoji #704 * represents Softbank Emoji #431 = e-4EE 1F56D EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-14 * represents KDDI Emoji #367 * represents Softbank Emoji #429 = e-4EC 1F56E EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-15 * represents KDDI Emoji #90 * represents Softbank Emoji #423 = e-4E6

Proposed glyphs: Dashed boxes with text, similar to U+FFFC and U+1680. In each dashed box, the text should be on two lines, "EC" on top and the number 6..15 on the bottom.

Properties: Standard symbols properties, with Bidi_Mirroring=False, for example

1F565;EMOJI COMPATIBILITY SYMBOL-6;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;

Proposal Summary Form

A. Administrative

B. Technical - General

C. Technical - Justification