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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @04:48PM
I'll fully admit I'm not in the target market, but do people actually use all these emoji? The basic smiley faces on text messages and IMs are fairly common, and I'll go so far as to grant that they "should" exist.
Besides them, though, I'll see 0-1 emojis on a daily basis... and certainly not to the extent that the world is clamoring for more. Do others actually see them being used in the wild by normal people?
I'm curious why is the consortium busy adding more and more of them. From my limited perspective, it feels a bit like an obsolete department in a company busy with make-work to try to justify their existence (such as a the stable-masters at a modern taxi company announcing how buggy whips will now be maroon instead of black).
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday November 16 2016, @09:21PM
I actually tried to use one just last night. I usually don't, but was talking with my girlfriend and wanted to send a hug emoji. They didn't have one. Nice to see they're getting *socks* though!
(That was Facebook Messenger's collection, not Unicode though...not sure if there's any relation other than both being poorly considered collections of largely useless emoticons)
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 20 2016, @05:43PM
💪💋💕😍😍😎😘🏩👌👌👌
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