Geometric Shapes Extended
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Short description: Unicode character block
| Geometric Shapes Extended | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+1F780..U+1F7FF (128 code points) |
| Plane | SMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Webdings Wingdings Emoji |
| Assigned | 101 code points |
| Unused | 27 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 7.0 | 85 (+85) |
| 11.0 | 89 (+4) |
| 12.0 | 101 (+12) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Geometric Shapes Extended is a Unicode block containing Webdings/Wingdings symbols, mostly different weights of squares, crosses, and saltires, and different weights of variously spoked asterisks, stars, and various color squares and circles for emoji.
The Geometric Shapes Extended block contains thirteen emoji: U+1F7E0–U+1F7EB and U+1F7F0.[3][4]
Template:Unicode chart Geometric Shapes Extended
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Geometric Shapes Extended block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.0 | U+1F780..1F7D4 | 85 | L2/11-052R | Suignard, Michel (2011-02-15), Wingdings and Webdings symbols - Preliminary study | |
| L2/11-149 | Suignard, Michel (2011-05-09), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings symbols | ||||
| L2/11-196 | N4022 | Suignard, Michel (2011-05-21), Revised Wingdings proposal | |||
| L2/11-247 | N4115 | Suignard, Michel (2011-06-08), Proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | |||
| L2/11-344 | N4143 | Suignard, Michel (2011-09-28), Updated proposal to add Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | |||
| N4103 | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03 | ||||
| L2/12-130 | N4239 | Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4201 (PDAM text for Amendment 1.2 to ISO/IEC 10646 3rd edition) | |||
| N4363 | Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | ||||
| L2/12-368 | N4384 | Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols | |||
| L2/12-086 | N4223 | Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27 | |||
| L2/16-121 | Moore, Lisa (2016-05-20), UTC #147 Minutes | ||||
| L2/16-185 | N4719R | West, Andrew (2016-07-11), Proposal to encode symbols for Go game notation | |||
| L2/16-216 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; McGowan, Rick; Pournader, Roozbeh; Glass, Andrew; Iancu, Laurențiu; Moore, Lisa (2016-07-30), Recommendations to UTC #148 August 2016 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/16-203 | Moore, Lisa (2016-08-18), UTC #148 Minutes | ||||
| N4873R (pdf, doc) | Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 65, 2018-03-16 | ||||
| L2/18-143R2 | N4960 | Davis, Mark (2018-05-03), ESC Recommendations 2018Q2 (revised) | |||
| L2/18-115 | Moore, Lisa (2018-05-09), UTC #155 Minutes | ||||
| L2/18-191 | Buff, Charlotte (2018-05-31), Comments on Emoji 12.0 Candidates | ||||
| L2/18-219 | West, Andrew (2018-07-11), Feedback on ESC recommendations for draft candidates for Emoji 12.0 (L2/18143R2) | ||||
| L2/18-246 | Silva, Eduardo Marín (2018-07-20), Response to Andrew West on feedback on emoji submissions (L2/18-219) | ||||
| L2/18-253 | Davis, Mark (2018-08-21), Comments on accumulated feedback on Unicode 12.0 draft candidates | ||||
| L2/18-183 | Moore, Lisa (2018-11-20), UTC #156 Minutes | ||||
| N5020 (pdf, doc) | Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2019-01-11), Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 67 | ||||
| 14.0 | U+1F7F0 | 1 | L2/20-225 | Krenek, Christian (2019-12-31), Proposal for Emoji: Equal Sign | |
| L2/20-237 | Moore, Lisa (2020-10-27), UTC #165 Minutes | ||||
| L2/20-242R2 | Daniel, Jennifer (2020-10-07), Recommendations for Emoji, Unicode 14.0 | ||||
| 15.0 | U+1F7D9 | 1 | L2/17-237 | Behjat, Adib; Behjat, Ayan (2017-07-05), Baha'i 9-Pointed Star Emoji Proposal Submission | |
| L2/17-287 | Davis, Mark; Edberg, Peter (2017-08-08), Recommendations from ESC for 2018, part 2, "One character originally proposed as emoji is considered more appropriate for encoding as a non-emoji symbol by the ESC. As a result, it would go through the normal process for deciding whether to encode a symbol." | ||||
| L2/20-095 | Behjat, Adib; Kiefte, Joop (2020-03-26), Proposal to add Nine Pointed star | ||||
| L2/21-144 | Behjat, Adib; Kiefte, Joop (2021-06-29), Proposal to add Nine Pointed star to Unicode | ||||
| L2/21-144R | Behjat, Adib; Kiefte, Joop (2021-10-01), Proposal to add Nine Pointed star | ||||
| L2/21-130 | Anderson, Deborah; Whistler, Ken; Pournader, Roozbeh; Liang, Hai (2021-07-26), Recommendations to UTC #168 July 2021 on Script Proposals | ||||
| L2/21-123 | Cummings, Craig (2021-08-03), Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 168 | ||||
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See also
- Dingbat
- other Unicode blocks
- Box Drawing
- Block Elements
- Geometric Shapes
- Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
- Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs includes several geometric shapes of different colors
- Supplemental Arrows-C
References
- ↑ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/ucd/. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ↑ "UTR #51: Unicode Emoji". Unicode Consortium. 2023-09-05. https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/.
- ↑ "UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01. https://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt.
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