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Some of the groups seem arbitrary; for example, ⟨⌘⟩ is used on keyboards, ⟨⏨⟩ in ALGOL, and ⟨📼⟩ as an emoji, and yet they are all in the "technology" group. Useful groups are those with characters likely to be used together, like {{tl|Script}} (and its subtemplates), {{tl|Music}}, and {{tl|IPA}}. I agree with {{diff|Template talk:Unicode|prev|526732533|DePiep's points}}: we must identify groups that would actually be used. [[User:Gorobay|Gorobay]] ([[User talk:Gorobay|talk]]) 23:14, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
:(Apologies for not replying sooner; I hadn't noticed the comment.) Yes, ⌘ is used on ''computer'' keyboards, ⏨ is used in a ''computer'' programming language, 📼 directly represents a piece of technology. Groupings like "technology" might not be quite as objective as the ones for "plant" and "food" but I think they'd still be useful. Perhaps it's a bit too generic or overly broad, I guess that's open for debate. On the other hand, I already have about two dozen groups—how many is too many? Remember, the main point is to suggest a font that would contain the symbols instead of leaving it completely up to the UA's font substitution: Segoe UI Symbol contains 117⁄125 of them (for technology) so that's a win. ⇔ <span style="font-size-adjust:0.54; font-family:'P22 Declaration Script','American Scribe','National Archive', Ovidius, 'Ovidius Script', 'Horizon BT', 'Final Frontier Old Style', Charcoal, Virtue;">[[User:ChristTrekker|ChristTrekker]]</span> 14:27, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
::A group is useful if a font targets it and its members would look silly in a browser-selected mish-mash of fonts. My three example characters are used in completely different domains, so it does not matter if multiple fonts are used.
::I think it is not important how many groups there are. There should be exactly as many as necessary.
::Is this meant to supplement or to replace {{tl|Script}} etc.? [[User:Gorobay|Gorobay]] ([[User talk:Gorobay|talk]]) 00:52, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
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