Editing Emoji (section)

===Emoji versus text presentation===
Unicode defines [[Variant form (Unicode)|variation sequences]] for many of its emoji to indicate their desired presentation.
{{blockquote |text=Emoji characters can have two main kinds of presentation:
* an ''emoji presentation'', with colorful and perhaps whimsical shapes, even animated
* a ''text presentation'', such as black & white |source=Unicode Technical Report #51: Unicode Emoji<ref name="UTR51"/>}}

Specifying the desired presentation is done by following the base emoji with either U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 (VS15) for text or U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (VS16) for emoji-style.<ref name="UniStdVarTxt">{{Cite web|url=https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/StandardizedVariants.txt|title=UCD: Standardized Variation Sequences|publisher=Unicode Consortium|access-date=August 17, 2016}}</ref> As of version {{Unicode version|version=16}} (2024), Unicode defines presentation sequences for 371 characters.<ref>[https://www.unicode.org/Public/16.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt Emoji-variation-sequences.txt]</ref> However, the [[Unicode Technical Committee]] has since determined that unifying colourful emoji characters with textual symbols and dingbats was a "mistake", and resolved to allocate new [[code point]]s rather than defining new presentation sequences.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23252-legacy-disunification.pdf |title=Proposal to disunify Symbols for Legacy Computing from emoji |first1=Rebecca |last1=Bettencourt |first2=Doug |last2=Ewell |id=[[Unicode Technical Committee|UTC]] L2/23-252}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable nounderlines" style="border-collapse:collapse;background:#FFFFFF;font-size:150%;text-align:center"
|+ style="font-size: 67%" | Sample emoji variation sequences
|- style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size: 67%"
! scope="col" style="text-align:right" | U+ || 2139 || 231B || 26A0 || 2712 || 2764 || 1F004 || 1F21A
|- style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size: 67%"
! scope="col" style="text-align:left" | Default{{nbsp}}presentation || Text || Emoji || Text || Text || Text || Emoji || Emoji
|-
! scope="col" style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size: 67%;text-align:left" | Base{{nbsp}}code&nbsp;point
| ℹ || ⌛ || ⚠ || ✒ || ❤ || 🀄 || 🈚
|-
! scope="col" style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size: 67%;text-align:left" | Base+VS15 (text)
| {{emoji presentation|ℹ|text}} || {{emoji presentation|⌛|text}} || {{emoji presentation|⚠|text}} || {{emoji presentation|✒|text}} || {{emoji presentation|❤|text}} || {{emoji presentation|🀄|text}} || {{emoji presentation|🈚|text}}
|-
! scope="col" style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size: 67%;text-align:left" | Base+VS16 (emoji)
| {{emoji presentation|ℹ}} || {{emoji presentation|⌛}} || {{emoji presentation|⚠}} || {{emoji presentation|✒}} || {{emoji presentation|❤}} || {{emoji presentation|🀄}} || {{emoji presentation|🈚}}
|-
! scope="col" style="background:#F8F8F8;font-size: 67%;text-align:left" | Twemoji image
| [[File:Twemoji2 2139.svg|22px]]
| [[File:Twemoji2 231b.svg|22px]]
| [[File:Twemoji2 26a0.svg|22px]]
| [[File:Twemoji2 2712.svg|22px]]
| [[File:Twemoji2 2764.svg|22px]]
| [[File:Twemoji2 1f004.svg|22px]]
| [[File:Twemoji2 1f21a.svg|22px]]
|}