Yeah, I’m willing to concede that there are multiple reasons to include things in Unicode and some things are included for utility rather than because it exist.

Yeah, I’m willing to concede that there are multiple reasons to include things in Unicode and some things are included for utility rather than because it exist. Things like half stars was added by petition similar to TFA, so my post should have been more nuanced. The point is that the reason why there is a seemingly useless emoji and not the [insert character you really want] is usually because one is preexisting and the other isn’t.