Jump to content

Dingbats (Unicode block)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is an old revision of this page, as edited by DePiep (talk | contribs) at 18:58, 2 May 2022 (top). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.
Dingbats
RangeU+2700..U+27BF
(192 code points)
PlaneBMP
ScriptsCommon
Assigned192 code points
Unused0 reserved code points
Source standardsITC Zapf Dingbats series 100
Unicode version history
1.0.0 (1991)160 (+160)
3.2 (2002)174 (+14)
5.2 (2009)175 (+1)
6.0 (2010)191 (+16)
7.0 (2014)192 (+1)
Chart
Code chart
Note: [1][2]

Chart

Dingbats[1]
Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)
  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
U+270x
U+271x
U+272x
U+273x
U+274x
U+275x
U+276x
U+277x
U+278x
U+279x
U+27Ax
U+27Bx
Notes
1.^ As of Unicode version 16.0

History

The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Dingbats block:

Version Final code points[a] Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document
1.0.0 U+2701..2704, 2706..2709, 270C..2727, 2729..274B, 274D, 274F..2752, 2756, 2758..275E, 2761..2767, 2776..2794, 2798..27AF, 27B1..27BE 160 (to be determined)
L2/11-438[b][c] N4182 Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
L2/15-050R[d][c] Davis, Mark; et al. (2015-01-29), Additional variation selectors for emoji
L2/15-301[e][c] Pournader, Roozbeh (2015-11-01), A proposal for 278 standardized variation sequences for emoji
L2/19-377R Daniel, Jennifer (2020-01-14), Multi-skintone Couples with Heart and Couples Kissing, Emoji ZWJ Sequences for Unicode 14.0 [Affects U+2764]
L2/20-015R Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "Consensus 162-C8", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162, Accept 200 provisional emoji candidates
3.2 U+2768..2775 14 L2/00-420 Patel, Sairus (2000-11-21), Proposal for additional 14 Dingbats
L2/00-436 Patel, Sairus (2000-12-18), Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646
L2/01-087 N2321 Patel, Sairus (2001-01-31), Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in Unicode/ISO-IEC 10646
L2/01-012R Moore, Lisa (2001-05-21), "Dingbats", Minutes UTC #86 in Mountain View, Jan 2001
L2/01-344 N2353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2001-09-09), "7.8 Proposal to complete the Dingbats block in 10646", Minutes from SC2/WG2 meeting #40 -- Mountain View, April 2001
5.2 U+2757 1 N3353 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2007-10-10), "M51.32", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 51 Hanzhou, China; 2007-04-24/27
L2/07-259 Suignard, Michel (2007-08-02), Japanese TV Symbols
L2/07-391 N3341 Suignard, Michel (2007-09-18), Japanese TV Symbols
L2/08-077R2 N3397 Suignard, Michel (2008-03-11), Japanese TV symbols
L2/08-128 Iancu, Laurențiu (2008-03-22), Names and allocation of some Japanese TV symbols from N3397
L2/08-158 Pentzlin, Karl (2008-04-16), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
L2/08-188 N3468 Sekiguchi, Masahiro (2008-04-22), Collected comments on Japanese TV Symbols (WG2 N3397)
L2/08-077R3 N3469 Suignard, Michel (2008-04-23), Japanese TV symbols
L2/08-215 Pentzlin, Karl (2008-05-07), Comments on L2/08-077R2 "Japanese TV Symbols"
L2/08-289 Pentzlin, Karl (2008-08-05), Proposal to rename and reassign some Japanese TV Symbols from L2/08-077R3
L2/08-292 Stötzner, Andreas (2008-08-06), Improvement suggestions for n3469
L2/08-307 Scherer, Markus (2008-08-08), Feedback on the Japanese TV Symbols Proposal (L2/08-077R3)
L2/08-318 N3453 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2008-08-13), "M52.14", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 52
L2/08-161R2 Moore, Lisa (2008-11-05), "Consensus 115-C17", UTC #115 Minutes, Approve 186 Japanese TV symbols for encoding in a future version of the standard.
L2/09-064 Scherer, Markus (2009-01-29), Request to change some ARIB/AMD6 character names and a code point
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.03b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
L2/11-438[b][c] N4182 Edberg, Peter (2011-12-22), Emoji Variation Sequences (Revision of L2/11-429)
6.0 U+2705, 270A..270B, 2728, 274C, 274E, 2753..2755, 2795..2797, 27B0, 27BF[c] 14 L2/09-025R2 N3582[f] Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-03-05), Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols
L2/09-026R N3583 Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2009-02-06), Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
L2/09-027R2 N3681 Scherer, Markus (2009-09-17), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/09-114 N3607 Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji, 2009-04-06
L2/09-412 N3722 Suignard, Michel (2009-10-26), "Ireland T2", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4078 (PDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
N3703 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2010-04-13), "M55.9h", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting no. 55, Tokyo 2009-10-26/30
L2/09-335R Moore, Lisa (2009-11-10), "Consensus 121-C10", UTC #121 / L2 #218 Minutes
L2/10-088 N3776 DoCoMo Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08
L2/10-089 N3777 KDDI Input on Emoji, 2010-03-08
L2/10-137 N3828 Suignard, Michel (2010-04-22), "JP.G11b, JP.T5, JP.T12", Disposition of comments on SC2 N 4123 (FPDAM text for Amendment 8 to ISO/IEC 10646:2003)
L2/10-132 Scherer, Markus; Davis, Mark; Momoi, Kat; Tong, Darick; Kida, Yasuo; Edberg, Peter (2010-04-27), Emoji Symbols: Background Data
L2/10-138 N3829 Constable, Peter; et al. (2010-04-27), "10", Emoji Ad-Hoc Meeting Report
L2/16-361 Pournader, Roozbeh; Felt, Doug (2016-11-07), Add text and emoji standardized variation sequences for 96 symbols
U+275F..2760 2 L2/09-021 N3565 Proposal to encode two heavy low quotes for German in the UCS Dingbats block, 2009-01-15
L2/09-003R Moore, Lisa (2009-02-12), "D.7", UTC #118 / L2 #215 Minutes
L2/09-234 N3603 (pdf, doc) Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2009-07-08), "M54.13b", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 54
7.0 U+2700 1 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 "10.2.1 Wingdings/Webdings additions", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 58, 2012-01-03
L2/12-130 N4239 Suignard, Michel (2012-05-08), "E4.", 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
  1. ^ Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names
  2. ^ a b See also L2/10-458, L2/11-414, L2/11-415, and L2/11-429
  3. ^ a b c d e Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji-related documents
  4. ^ See also L2/13-207, L2/14-054, L2/14-063, L2/15-051A, L2/15-051B
  5. ^ See also L2/15-198 and L2/15-275
  6. ^ Japanese translation of N3582 is available as N3621
  1. ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  2. ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 9 July 2016.