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janrinok
on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:04AM
from the how-did-we-communicate-before-the-brocolli-emoji? dept.
from the how-did-we-communicate-before-the-brocolli-emoji? dept.
The consortium that approves emojis has signed off on 56 new ones, including a woman breastfeeding a baby, a woman wearing a hijab and a "gender-inclusive" child, adult and older adult.
Among the other emoji that will be released in 2017 by Unicode are a face vomiting, a head exploding and a man and woman practising yoga. A flying saucer, vampire and T-rex also made the cut, as did a sandwich, broccoli and a pair of socks.
Unicode 10.0 will also include 285 hentaigana (obsolete/historical variants of Japanese hiragana) and 3 additional Zanabazar Square characters.
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The Official Colorado State Vegetable is now the "state legislator".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @06:00AM
Kids these days with their emojis... In my day, we had to make do with spare colons and parentheses and they worked just fine. Sure we had to tilt our head 90 degrees to read them, but was just the way things were back then, and that's how we liked it.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Wednesday November 16 2016, @08:16AM
Spare?! We had to craft those colons out of raw 1s and 0s, reusing the bits from incoming spams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @10:47AM
You had spams to reuse? Luxury! In my time we had to create our 0s and 1s ourself from nothing but stone!