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by Freak_NL 2669 days ago
More specifically, scripts and glyphs that have documented and valid use cases. If you made up a script today, you would have to start using it first (and gain acceptance of it in some community) before it would be eligible for inclusion in the Unicode standard. A good example is the power symbol (⏻, Unicode 9.0). The proposal for it neatly documented that it was in wide use already — in manuals in particular.

Emoji are a slightly different beast though. Those seem to get included based on projected use cases.
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epse 2669 days ago
They used to be included because the Japanese had them in their encoding systems, but the situation now is far more fuzzy. Which is odd for a standard.
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coldtea 2668 days ago
>but the situation now is far more fuzz

It's basically: "text/social comment/chat apps are big, let's add more BS icons for our Facebook/Apple/Google/MS/etc chat apps"

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