If Writing Wizard Pre-Writing Pictographs were in Unicode

The Writing Wizard Pre-Writing Pictographs are a set of 56 Pictographs that can be Found in an App Called “Writing Wizard”, that was Intended for Pre-Writers, and they are Officially Called “Shapes”. They were Introduced in the 2.0 Update along with 6 new stickers, Support for iPhones and Localization for French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish. As the app is now in 5.0, it has Definitely been a while since the Introduction of these Pictographs. In fact, they were Introduced 2 Years After Launch! As of yet, they are yet to be Included in Unicode. So I Decided to do this Article to see how they would be like in Unicode.

I First Decided to split the set into Sections:

1. Pictographs 1–18 are Part of the Angular Symbol Section.
2. Pictographs 19–42 are Part of the Cursive Symbol Section.
3. Pictographs 43–52 are Part of the Pictographs Section.

I also decided to note which Pictographs are based off of which:

1. Pictographs 1–10 & 14 are Based out of Squares & Rectangles.
2. Pictographs 11–13 are Based out of a Triangle.
3. Pictographs 15–18, 26, 36 & 41 are Based out of Other Angular Shapes or Polygons.
4. Pictographs 7, 19–40 & 42 are Based out of Circles, Ovals & Other Curvy or Otherwise Curvilinear Shapes.
5. Pictographs 12–14, 27–36 & 38 are Based out of Waveforms or Otherwise Looping Lines or Curves.
6. Pictographs 4, 10, 37 & 43–52 are Based out of Existing Symbols Already in Unicode or Pictographs.

I did this so that I could give them a Name More Easily.

The unhyphenated term “noncharacter” refers to 66 code points (labeled <not a character>) permanently reserved for internal use, and therefore guaranteed to never be assigned to a character. Each of the 17 planes has its two ending code points set aside as noncharacters. So, noncharacters are: U+FFFE and U+FFFF on the BMP, U+1FFFE and U+1FFFF on Plane 1, and so on, up to U+10FFFE and U+10FFFF on Plane 16, for a total of 34 code points. In addition, there is a contiguous range of another 32 noncharacter code points in the BMP: U+FDD0..U+FDEF. Software implementations are therefore free to use these code points for internal use. One particularly useful example of a noncharacter is the code point U+FFFE. This code point has the reverse UTF-16/UCS-2 byte sequence of the byte order mark (U+FEFF). If a stream of text contains this noncharacter, this is a good indication the text has been interpreted with the incorrect endianness.

Says Wikipedia. but Luckily, None of the Codepoints are a noncharacter. So that’s good, but I think that it’s sad to see some codepoints in Unicode to be Reserved Forever.

I was Debating on weather to call the Block “Writing Wizard Compatibility” or “Writing Wizard Pre-Writing Pictographs”. I chose the Later because I think that would Cause Less Confusion. I also left U+F831-U+F83C & all codepoints after U+F83F Reserved Intentionally to be added in when the Future Comes.

The Blocks for the Selection of Word Wizard Pictographs that were Meant for Pre-Writing are the Following:

• Writing Wizard Pre-Writing Pictographs (F800-F89F) For well, all the Writing Wizard Pre-Writing Pictographs

And I Might add in More for the Additional Pictographs that come in the Future, so Please add in a Response to this if you Found Any that I Didn’t Include.

So If Writing Wizard Pre-Writing Pictographs were in Unicode, They would become more well known and Would be used in other Pre-Writing Activities.