8 emoji for 17

[eggrobin]

From ESC.

[181-C5] Consensus: Accept 8 new emoji characters with the following code points and character names, based on Section 2 of document L2/24-226R, for Unicode Version 17.0:

    U+1FAEA DISTORTED FACE
    U+1FAEF FIGHT CLOUD
    U+1FADD APPLE CORE
    U+1FACD ORCA
    U+1FAC8 HAIRY CREATURE
    U+1FA8A TROMBONE
    U+1F6D8 LANDSLIDE
    U+1FA8E TREASURE CHEST

• https://github.com/unicode-org/utc-release-management/issues/172

[markusicu]

Do we know why some of these are W vs. N?

[eggrobin]

Oh. They should probably be W, like all recent emoji. https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%5Cp%7BEmoji%7D&g=age+ea&i=

[markusicu]

Interesting... especially weird that the "User interface symbols" from Unicode 6 are inconsistent with each other.

[nedley]

At the risk of summoning an historian to find out why, U+231A and U+231B were changed from eaw=N to eaw=W in Unicode 9.0.

[nedley]

Should we have an invariant checking East_Asian_Width and Vertical_Orientation for Emoji_Presentation characters, at least for assignments from now on?

[markusicu]

Should we have an invariant checking East_Asian_Width and Vertical_Orientation for Emoji_Presentation characters, at least for assignments from now on?

Is there a good correlation? Or is it more like "recently added emoji have been assigned eaw=W"?
If there is a good correlation, I suggest you create a PAG issue and propose certain property values going forward.
And maybe look for old emoji that use different values for seemingly no good reason.

[nedley]

Filed https://github.com/unicode-org/properties/issues/347 to get the ball rolling. Thanks!

[eggrobin]

I think we forgot a property for these characters, namely the Emoji property 🙃