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The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0 Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs -- Range: 1F300–1F5FF

http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-7.0/U70-1F300.pdf

Chart Page 4 at Codepoint 0x1f595

Description on Page 14: Hand symbols 1F595 REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED

https://codepoints.net/U+1F595 http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f595/index.htm

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Just learned about it's neighbour at 0x1F596 ("RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS")

Given that there are 4 possible places between fingers where to put a separation (2⁴), two hands (⨯2), and each finger could be extended or bent (⨯2⁵) and the hand could be shown from front or back (⨯2), I'm actually quite amazed that they haven't shown due engineering diligence and spent a whole 2¹¹ codepoints to, for once and for all, solve the problem of displaying hand gestures... Even though some will be quite challenging to perform.

Clearly the solution is to have all those attributes to be combining codepoints over two single base codepoints of RIGHT HAND and LEFT HAND. The only question is whether in canonical form they should come before or after skin tone codepoints.

Edit: mmm HN doesnt allow posting or can't save the UTF-8 middle finger..

Edit2: It appears that HN is blocking most unicode chars because people used it for spammy titles.

That's correct, I asked about it recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10156894

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