RE: Odp: RE: What to do if a legacy compatibility character is defective?

Nitai Sasson via Unicode <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:13:27 +0000

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> The characters 1FB70—1FB81 1FBB5—1FBB8 1FBBC, as specified in Unicode 13.0—17.0, are defined with 1÷8 blocks.

No, they're not. That might be in their name, but fonts may render them differently. Notice the following section of this file:

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf

> Fonts
> The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive. Considerable variation is to beexpected in actual fonts.

There are many instances where the name of a codepoint doesn't tell the full story. This is one of them. Fonts can and should render this as something different than 1/8 blocks if their design purpose calls for it.

Nitai Sasson