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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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(Score: 3, Interesting) by RamiK on Wednesday November 16 2016, @10:49AM
The emoticons \ emojis go back to the 70s and the Wang word-processing machines [wikipedia.org] via CP437 [wikipedia.org].
compiling...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @07:55PM
Emoticons and emojis are not the same thing.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday November 16 2016, @08:03PM
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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