Many of these characters were originally intended for use as bullets for lists.[3] The parenthesized forms are historically based on typewriter approximations of the circled versions.[3] Although these roles have been supplanted by styles and other markup in "rich text" contexts, the characters are included in the Unicode standard "for interoperability with the legacy East Asian character sets and for the occasional text context where such symbols otherwise occur."[3] The Unicode Standard considers these characters to be distinct from characters which are similar in form but specialized in purpose, such as the circled C, P or R characters which are defined as copyright and trademark symbols or the circled a used for an at sign.[3]
The Enclosed Alphanumerics block contains one emoji: U+24C2, the enclosed M used as a symbol for mask works.[5][6]
It defaults to a text presentation and has two standardized variants defined to specify text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) or emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16).[7]
Emoji variation sequences
U+
24C2
base code point
Ⓜ
base+VS15 (text)
Ⓜ︎
base+VS16 (emoji)
Ⓜ️
HistoryEdit
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block:
^"UCD: Emoji Data for UTR #51". Unicode Consortium. 2023-02-01.
^"UTS #51 Emoji Variation Sequences". The Unicode Consortium.
October 17, 2023
enclosed, alphanumerics, redirects, here, symbol, anarchy, anarchist, symbolism, circle, redirects, here, political, party, with, that, symbol, republican, party, united, states, trademark, symbol, registered, trademark, symbol, redirects, here, phonorecording. redirects here For the symbol for anarchy see Anarchist symbolism Circle A redirects here For the political party with that symbol see Republican Party United States For the trademark symbol see registered trademark symbol redirects here For phonorecording copyright symbol see sound recording copyright symbol and redirect here For the Steinhaus Moser number mega or megiston see Steinhaus Moser notation redirects here For the Touhou Project character see List of Touhou Project characters Cirno redirects here For the vegan symbol see Vegetarian and vegan symbolism For other uses see V redirects here For the kosher food label see Orthodox Union Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block of typographical symbols of an alphanumeric within a circle a bracket or other not closed enclosure or ending in a full stop Enclosed AlphanumericsRangeU 2460 U 24FF 160 code points PlaneBMPScriptsCommonAssigned160 code pointsUnused0 reserved code pointsUnicode version history1 0 0 1991 139 139 3 2 2002 159 20 4 0 2003 160 1 Unicode documentationCode chart Web pageNote 1 2 It is currently fully allocated Within the Basic Multilingual Plane a few additional enclosed numerals are in the Dingbats and the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months blocks There is also a block with more of these characters in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane named Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement U 1F100 U 1F1FF as of Unicode 6 0 Contents 1 Purpose 2 Block 3 Emoji 4 History 5 See also 6 ReferencesPurpose EditMany of these characters were originally intended for use as bullets for lists 3 The parenthesized forms are historically based on typewriter approximations of the circled versions 3 Although these roles have been supplanted by styles and other markup in rich text contexts the characters are included in the Unicode standard for interoperability with the legacy East Asian character sets and for the occasional text context where such symbols otherwise occur 3 The Unicode Standard considers these characters to be distinct from characters which are similar in form but specialized in purpose such as the circled C P or R characters which are defined as copyright and trademark symbols or the circled a used for an at sign 3 A circled s was used in documents circa 1900 printed by German missionaries especially the Basel Mission in the Malayalam language to denote a ditto mark 4 Block EditEnclosed Alphanumerics 1 Official Unicode Consortium code chart PDF 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E FU 246x U 247x U 248x U 249x U 24Ax U 24Bx U 24Cx U 24Dx U 24Ex U 24Fx Notes 1 As of Unicode version 15 1Emoji EditThe Enclosed Alphanumerics block contains one emoji U 24C2 the enclosed M used as a symbol for mask works 5 6 It defaults to a text presentation and has two standardized variants defined to specify text presentation U FE0E VS15 or emoji style U FE0F VS16 7 Emoji variation sequences U 24C2base code point base VS15 text base VS16 emoji History EditThe following Unicode related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Enclosed Alphanumerics block Version Final code points a Count L2 ID WG2 ID Document1 0 0 U 2460 24EA 139 to be determined L2 11 438 b c N4182 Edberg Peter 2011 12 22 Emoji Variation Sequences Revision of L2 11 429 3 2 U 24EB 24FE 20 L2 99 238 Consolidated document containing 6 Japanese proposals 1999 07 15N2093 Addition of medical symbols and enclosed numbers 1999 09 13L2 00 010 N2103 Umamaheswaran V S 2000 01 05 8 8 Minutes of WG 2 meeting 37 Copenhagen Denmark 1999 09 13 16L2 00 296 N2256 Sato T K 2000 09 04 Circled Numbers in JIS X 02134 0 U 24FF 1 L2 01 480 Muller Eric 2001 12 14 Proposal to add NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZEROL2 02 193 Muller Eric 2001 12 14 Proposal to add Negative Circled Digit ZeroL2 02 070 Moore Lisa 2002 08 26 NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO Minutes for UTC 90 Consensus Accept the character NEGATIVE CIRCLED DIGIT ZERO at U 24FF Proposed code points and characters names may differ from final code points and names See also L2 10 458 L2 11 414 L2 11 415 and L2 11 429 Refer to the history section of the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block for additional emoji related documentsSee also EditSpecial characters Enclosed C Enclosed A Copyright symbol Character sets Japanese rebus monogram Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement Enclosed CJK Letters and Months extends enclosed Arabic decimal numbers to References Edit Unicode character database The Unicode Standard Retrieved 2023 07 26 Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard The Unicode Standard Retrieved 2023 07 26 a b c d The Unicode Standard 6 0 1 Joseph Muliyil M Krishnan 1904 Contents The New Malayalam Reader in Malayalam Mangalore Basel Mission Book and Tract Repository p vii UTR 51 Unicode Emoji Unicode Consortium 2023 09 05 UCD Emoji Data for UTR 51 Unicode Consortium 2023 02 01 UTS 51 Emoji Variation Sequences The Unicode Consortium Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Enclosed Alphanumerics amp oldid 1178938274, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
