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Unicode Consortium Adding 230 New Emojis in Emoji 12.0

posted by chromas on Thursday February 07 2019, @07:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the 🌮 dept.

takyon writes:

Emoji 12.0 brings us waffles, more diversity, suggestive "finger pinch" glyph

There's a push for more diversity with this new emoji release. We have emojis for deaf people in three genders (male, female, and genderless) and five skin tones, an ear with a hearing aid, people in motorized and unmotorized wheelchairs, prosthetic arms and legs, a guide dog and a service dog, and people with a probing cane. There are actually only 59 distinct new emoji types in this release, but everything that depicts a human comes in five skin tones and three genders, which pumps up the numbers. You can really see this with the "People holding hands" emoji, which is completely configurable for a total of 70 possible combinations.

The emoji that's causing the most buzz is "pinching hand." Emojipedia's example shows a thumb and pointer finger with a small distance between them, which could also be interpreted as a hand signal for "small." People are already coming up with, uh, "suggestive" uses for such a glyph, and if the actual implementations follow Emojipedia's design, the glyph could end up on the naughty list next to peach and eggplant.

Thank you, Emojesus. ✝

By the way, what happened to calling it Unicode 12.0? Maybe they'll call it that in June.

Unicode Consortium blog post. Also at Emojipedia and 9to5Mac.

Previously: 38 New Emojis to be Introduced in 2016
Unicode Considering 67 New Emoji for 2016
Unicode 9.0 Serves up Bacon Emoji, 71 others, and Six New Scripts
Unicode 10.0's New Emojis
Stink Over Frowning Poo Emoji at the Unicode Consortium

Related: Apple's New iPhone X will let You Control the Poo Emoji with Your Face
Google CEO Drops Everything to Fix Cheeseburger Emoji
Microsoft Briefly Left Holding the Gun Emoji
Battle of the Bagel Emoji

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:46PM (5 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:46PM (#797773) Homepage
    Surely the atheist emoji is the zero-width breaking space? However, there's been an ASCII symbol available since pre-ASCII (specifically ITA2 from 1924) for this purpose - NUL.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:53PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @02:53PM (#797774)

    On your sig:

    If vaccination works, then why doesn't eucharist protect kids against Christianity?

    Most vaccinations only work when injected, not when ingested. ;-)

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday February 07 2019, @03:46PM (3 children)

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday February 07 2019, @03:46PM (#797800) Homepage
      Arguably the most significant vaccine in the world is the polio one, and since the 60s that's been oral.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @07:03PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 07 2019, @07:03PM (#797885)

        Don't let the joke go unmolested!

      • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday February 07 2019, @07:40PM (1 child)

        by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday February 07 2019, @07:40PM (#797911) Journal

        Arguably, one of any number greater than one is not most of them, no matter how significant that one might be..

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        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday February 07 2019, @11:12PM

          by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Thursday February 07 2019, @11:12PM (#798051) Homepage
          Oh, that one's easy - that's equivocation.

          Next!
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