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Do you speak about these symbols related to Creative Commons ?

• ‎U+1F10E: CIRCLED ANTICLOCKWISE ARROW (🄎)
• U+‎1F16D: CIRCLED CC (🅭)
• ‎U+1F16F: CIRCLED HUMAN FIGURE (🅯)

See Unicode block "Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement" (U+1F100-1F1FF), in script group "Creative Commons symbols": they were added in Unicode 14.0.0 (2021 September 14). See also https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-14.0/U140-1F100.pdf

Effectively not a lot of fonts support them for now (not even the released versions of "Noto Symbol", or its versions in development, last updated in 2020 on GitHub).

Creative Commons symbols anyway does not seem to be an urgent goal for these providers. Support for these new symbols in "Noto Symbols" or in OS-provided fonts will have to wait (for now the released Noto font set still focuses on Unicode 13; Unicode 14 is premature and usable only with embedded fonts, eg. in PDFs or with webfonts, so they are still not suitable for use on desktop web browsers, notably beause MediaWiki servers don't have any free font to install to support these extensions with webfonts): Wikimedia slowly integrates new updated fonts in its webfont servers, but Mediawiki is also used in many other sites than Wikimedia wikis, which cannot support webfonts.

On the opposite, various Mediawiki resources for mobile skins or extensions now use some more recently added "Emojis" for actions rendered in small buttons (even in the base translation in English) ; but it seems that fonts supporting these Emojis are released much faster, due to the interest of wellknown mobile OS and social networks providers, that want to broadcast these symbols early (urgently?) and rapidly update fonts, even if for some devices this requires adding "webfont" servers for these services. I think it's dangerous to introduce these symbols too fast, except for resources that are *specific* to mobile OSes and sponsored by major mobile OS providers (Android, iOS), and social notworks for their apps (like Facebook, Twitter, or other East-Asian social networks in Japan and China, that love using emojis everywhere, but not so much for their use in Russia or the rest of Asia and Africa...).

I do not like much these Emojis, mostly for accessibility reasons: even for a mobile interface, buttons could still render SVG images (e.g. hosted in Wimedia Commons or embedded in the HTML generated or the UI resources of apps and extensions), and provide accessibility with normal "alt=" or "title=" text on these images or on the whole button; emojis (as well as their color choice) also often carry assumptions about their interpretation across cultures, they are not making the interface clearer, just "cute-looking" for some users (but not so cute for users of display devices with low-DPI resolution or absence of colors); unforteunately these recently added messages do not offer alternative layouts with normal text respecting user preferences or device capabilities.