RE: Re: Hello,

I too was very much under the impression that Unicode was moving away from taking existing non-emoji characters and repurposing them as emoji with variation selectors.

The OP’s post helped to demonstrate one of the problems with this approach:

> - U+2721 ✡ Star of David
> - U+262A ☪ Star and Crescent
> - U+271D ✝ Latin Cross
> - U+2638 ☸ Wheel of Dharma
> - U+262C ☬ Khanda
> - U+1F549 🕉 Om

On my system, which is hardly far from the mainstream (Outlook on Windows 11), three of these symbols appear as plain, black-and-white, dingbat-style symbols, and three appear as colored emoji, even though no variation selectors are present.

The Druze Star has the defining characteristic of a distinct color for each of its five points (clockwise from top: green, red, yellow, blue, white). U+272F has little in common with this, except for being a five-pointed star.

“No new codepoint needed” is not a goal. There are plenty of code points available for worthy candidates, which this appears to be. I would suggest proposing it as such.

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