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It is simply factuly incorrect to say that a commonly used sysmbol would not benifit from being included in fonts. How can a committee working in this field posibly fail to understand that?

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It is not incorrect, and they do understand but they don't care. They have esoteric philosophical justifications that exclude some commonly used symbols while inventing never before seen ones. This is the problem with putting a tiny number of otherwise powerless people in charge things.

They clap become clap petty clap tyrants.

What is the significance of clap?

I'm mocking the overuse of the clapping hands emoji. Here is the first result from Bing for the search "clap emoji overuse":

https://www.reddit.com/r/justlegbeardthings/comments/6rl6mu/...

Which is something no one asked for, but Unicode gave us anyway and now everyone is annoyed by.

Maybe a few people on twitter? I've never seen it elsewhere and I barely use twitter so saying "everyone" is an exaggeration. Also, if everyone were annoyed by it, then it wouldn't be overused any more almost by definition.

Similar to case law in America, the committee might be avoiding potential abuse in future requests that point back to the rules being seemingly modified for one specific symbol.

If the rules are allowing U+1F4A9 and disallowing an actual symbol commonly used in text, they should change the rules.

Well U+1F4A9 exists because Japanese mobile operators modified their char sets to include emoji, and emoji has been part of Japanese culture for a long time.

Unicode aims to encode every character used for human communication in every culture, and Japan uses U+1F4A9.

Unicode does not determine what can or can not be included in fonts. Fonts can include symbols not defined by Unicode if they want.

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