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Unicode 10.0's New Emojis

posted by janrinok on Wednesday November 16 2016, @05:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-did-we-communicate-before-the-brocolli-emoji? dept.

takyon writes:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/12/new-emojis-to-include-breastfeeding-a-hijab-and-the-lotus-position

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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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @08:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @08:16AM (#427424)

    The problem is that only sweaty nerds want Tengwar, Cirth, and Klingon, while Apple, Google, Microsoft et al. want emoji, and are getting them in there annually (check the revision history).

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Wednesday November 16 2016, @10:49AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Wednesday November 16 2016, @10:49AM (#427459)

    The emoticons \ emojis go back to the 70s and the Wang word-processing machines [wikipedia.org] via CP437 [wikipedia.org].

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:55PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:55PM (#427728)

      Emoticons and emojis are not the same thing.

      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 16 2016, @08:03PM

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Wednesday November 16 2016, @08:03PM (#427736) Journal

        So what, the backslash is "setminus", so it's "emoticons without emojis". ;-)

        (I wonder why in the latest time so many people use a backslash where a slash would belong.)

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  • (Score: 1) by J_Darnley on Wednesday November 16 2016, @11:33PM

    by J_Darnley (5679) on Wednesday November 16 2016, @11:33PM (#427852)

    And who are the users that wanted the deseret and shavian symbols mentioned if not sweaty language nerds?