Why are these called "emojis" for mouse buttons rather than just "characters" for them?
On Tue, 31 Dec, 2019, 18:45 Philippe Verdy via Unicode, <unicode@unicode.org> wrote: > A lot of application need to document their keymap and want to display > keys. > > For now there are emojis for mouses (several variants: 1, 2 or 3 buttons), > independently of the button actually pressed. > > However there's no simple emoji to represent the very common mouse click > buttons used in lot of UI. > > But it would be good to have emojis for the left, center, and right click > (showing a mouse with the correct button filled in black), instead of > writing "left click" in plain text. > > Has it been proposed ? > > See for example https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ID/Shortcuts > >