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- Proposal for the encoding of banjo glyph
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- Proposal
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- The Unicode Consortium proposes adding 1 UCS character to further the goal of completeness
- for the set of glyphs represented on the SMP block: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs(1).
- The current "emoji" block, set to establish interoperability of existing code-sets
- with the UCS standard, is incomplete in several key areas. This addition of
- a banjo glyph to an empty character space in this code block does nothing to
- disrupt previously established goals of this block, but, rather, extends this
- block to include a larger community of customers.
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- There is also a demonstrated demand for the proposed glyph among a community of
- customers in bluegrass and banjo discussion groups in online communities.
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- Proposed Character: Category and Description
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- * **Category**: B.1-Specialized (small collection)
- * **General Category**: Other Symbols (So)
- * **Block**: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
- * **Character Name**: 'BANJO'
- * **Glyph**: U+1F3DB
- * **Description of Usage**:
- Glyph would be used in any place it would be appropriate to represent
- banjo music or the invocation of what the idea of "banjo" represents.
- This includes, but is not limited to, representing bluegrass music,
- the earliest recorded popular music, early American music traditions, or
- African music traditions (as this is the region from where the banjo is
- believed to have originated)<sup>2</sup>.
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- Justifications: category and name
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- Name:
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- As glyph is a banjo, the name 'BANJO' accurately represents, and is
- the accepted name for, that which is shown in the glyph.
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- Category:
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- The category to which the symbol is assigned is part of the rational for
- adding the glyph—set completeness. The block and general category already
- house the glyphs for 'MUSICAL KEYBOARD', 'TRUMPET', 'SAXOPHONE' and 'VIOLIN'.
- 'BANJO' would be added to this block and group for set completeness.
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- Groups and 'Community of Customers'
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- 1. [Banjo Hangout discussion forum](http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/278863)
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- Proposed banjo glyph
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- Proposal summary
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- [link](https://github.com/thcipriani/unicode-banjo/blob/master/n4102-form.pdf)
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- Sources
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- 1. https://sites.google.com/site/unicodesymbols/Home/emoji-symbols/proposal-text
- 2. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/23/139880625/the-banjos-roots-reconsidered
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