Emoji since Emoji 3.0 missing

[colinmford]

Hey there @LettError,

I was trying to add some emoji glyphs (🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪⬛️⬜️🟫) to my font, and realized they were missing from ɣNUFL. Further digging revealed it seems like it is missing emoji added from Emoji 3.0 onward (i.e. 2015 — https://emojipedia.org/emoji-3.0/). I think emoji 3.0 is when unicode really started going crazy with the ZWJ sequences, and obviously ɣNUFL doesn't exist to name those — but shouldn't single unicode emoji be in there? Emoji pre-3.0 are in there, like 👌 is "okHandSign".

Given the fact that basically every year unicode backs a truck up to us and dumps a ton of new emoji, I was wondering if you see ɣNUFL providing names for emoji going forward or if you would advise that designers use "uniXXXXX" names for all emoji instead.

[LettError]

Good question. I stopped adding emoji as there did not seem to be a lot of interest for them. And also for the ZWJ and Fitzpatrick sequences I just don't know how these should be treated and what kind of processing they need when they're compiled. A name for each possible combination? Or similar to how ligatures are named a_b_c ? uniXXXXX_uniXXXXX_uniXXXXX car_red woman_heart_woman hand_uni1F3FC ?