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That still doesn't answer why these particular characters needed their own character. For instance, 🈯 U+1F22F [0] is really just a stylized version of 指 U+6307

That still doesn't answer why these particular characters needed their own character. For instance, 🈯 U+1F22F [0] is really just a stylized version of 指 U+6307 [1] [2]. On a likely related note, the Enclosed Ideographic Supplement [3] seems simmilarly redundent, being composed of characters such as 🈯 which, again, should be a modification of of the basic 指 character. It is not like Unicode does not support modifying characters. EDIT: not "likely related" the emoji character described in the article is just 🈯. This character is called called "Squared Cjk Unified Ideograph-6307". [0] http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#1f22f http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html#1f22f [1] https://unicode-table.com/en/6307/ https://unicode-table.com/en/6307/ [2] Insert rant about Han unification [3] https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/enclosed-ideographic-supplement/ https://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/enclosed-ideographic-sup...

cooper12 10y ago
My guess would be because of semantics. The plain version is the character itself used in text. The squared version is a specific symbol used in television for "designated hitter". It's the same reason that there are unicode characters that looks exactly like latin characters, except they're in different unicode blocks. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph#Unicode_homoglyphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph#Unicode_homoglyphs)
- Symbiote 10y ago
  It will be for compatibility with those old encodings. Otherwise, these two codepoints should be used: U+6307 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6307 U+20DE COMBINING ENCLOSING SQUARE To give this: 指⃞ That can work on any character, and there are other enclosing options: X⃝ circle X⃞ square X⃟ diamond X⃠ backslash circle X⃢ screen X⃣ keycap X⃤ triangle So we can make an escape key: ␛⃣ U+241B SYMBOL FOR ESCAPE; U+20E3 COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP

cooper12 10y ago

My guess would be because of semantics. The plain version is the character itself used in text. The squared version is a specific symbol used in television for "designated hitter". It's the same reason that there are unicode characters that looks exactly like latin characters, except they're in different unicode blocks. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph#Unicode_homoglyphs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoglyph#Unicode_homoglyphs)

Symbiote 10y ago
It will be for compatibility with those old encodings. Otherwise, these two codepoints should be used: U+6307 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6307 U+20DE COMBINING ENCLOSING SQUARE To give this: 指⃞ That can work on any character, and there are other enclosing options: X⃝ circle X⃞ square X⃟ diamond X⃠ backslash circle X⃢ screen X⃣ keycap X⃤ triangle So we can make an escape key: ␛⃣ U+241B SYMBOL FOR ESCAPE; U+20E3 COMBINING ENCLOSING KEYCAP