For an interesting sense of "backwards compatibility" with the planet's past encodings, Unicode decided in concert with Microsoft to encode all of Windows' clas

For an interesting sense of "backwards compatibility" with the planet's past encodings, Unicode decided in concert with Microsoft to encode all of Windows' classic Wingdings 1/2/3 in various places in the Unicode planes. Some of them combined with Variation Selector 16 now double as emoji, so there's an interesting through line between ancient Wingdings and modern emoji. But also yes, some of Wingdings was far more decorative than most of what Unicode prefers to encode, it only gets a pass for how ubiquitous Wingdings is/was.