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nervuri nervuri at disroot.org
Mon Mar 22 13:59:14 GMT 2021
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On Mon, Mar 15, 2021, Oliver Simmons wrote:
E0020: __
... (E0020–E007F used for invisibly tagging texts by language)
E007F: __
These *were* used for tagging texts by language, but have been
deprecated in favour of using other non-Unicode metadata for this
purpose.
They are planned to be used in emojis and are (were?) used (but not
widely supported) for country codes/flags with codes longer than 2
characters (3?), such as USA states or counties of England.
Wikipedia has a ~ok description of their history.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags_(Unicode_block)
Thanks, I replaced "used" with "formerly used". Wikipedia says "Therelease of Emoji 5.0 in March 2017 considers these characters to beemoji for use as modifiers in special sequences." I take that to meanthat they will remain zero-width, but will generate emojis when used inspecial sequences, as with the flag of England:
🏴=🏴<U+E0067><U+E0062><U+E0065><U+E006E><U+E0067><U+E007F><U+E0042>
Unicode keeps getting weirder.