Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs" in English language version.
This proposal attempts to address several issues related to emoji-like characters in Unicode: • Concerns about the lack of diversity in the representation of the people and body part emoji. • Concerns about apparent bias in the selection of encoded characters, and/or notable gaps in the current set. • Popular requests for emoji additions.
We propose 5 characters [...] The tones are based on the Fitzpatrick scale [...] The default representation of these alone is as a color swatch. However, if one of these characters follows a character for one or more persons (WOMAN, KISS) or a character for a hand position or a body part (VICTORY HAND, NOSE), then the desired representation is to show the sequence as a single glyph corresponding to the image for the person(s) or body part with the specified skin tone [...]
Notable character additions include [...] Emoji symbols and symbol modifiers for implementing skin tone diversity...