Tags (Unicode block)
| Tags | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+E0000..U+E007F (128 code points) |
| Plane | SSP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Assigned | 97 code points |
| Unused | 31 reserved code points 1 deprecated |
| Unicode version history | |
| 3.1 (2001) | 97 (+97) |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Tags is a Unicode block containing formatting tag characters. The block is designed to mirror ASCII. It was originally intended for language tags, but has now been repurposed as emoji modifiers, specifically for region flags.
Legacy use[]
U+E0001, U+E0020–U+E007F were originally intended for invisibly tagging texts by language[3] but that use is no longer recommended.[4] All of those characters were deprecated in Unicode 5.1.
With the release of Unicode 8.0, U+E0020–U+E007E are no longer deprecated characters. The change was made "to clear the way for the potential future use of tag characters for a purpose other than to represent language tags".[5] Unicode states that "the use of tag characters to represent language tags in a plain text stream is still a deprecated mechanism for conveying language information about text".[5]
Current use[]
With the release of Unicode 9.0, U+E007F is no longer a deprecated character. (U+E0001 LANGUAGE TAG remains deprecated.) The release of Emoji 5.0 in May 2017[6] considers these characters to be emoji for use as modifiers in special sequences.
The only usage specified is for representing the flags of regions, alongside the use of Regional Indicator Symbols for national flags.[7] These sequences consist of U+1F3F4