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Google redesigns its emoji to be more universal and authentic
Google is tweaking 992 of its emoji designs to make them more "universal, accessible, and authentic," the company announced today. The new designs will arrive this fall alongside Android 12, but Google says they'll also be available on older versions with apps that use its Appcompat compatibility layer. They're also coming to other Google platforms like Gmail, Chrome OS, Google Chat, and YouTube Live Chat this month.
[...] [The] bikini emoji no longer looks like it's being worn by an invisible person, and the face mask emoji now shows a face with its eyes open. Google says it made this change to reflect the fact that masks have become "a universal way of showing kindness to others" rather than a symbol of someone being sick.
[...] If you're wondering why we've seen such a flurry of emoji news over the past couple of days, it's because this year's World Emoji Day [landed] July 17th.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 20 2021, @11:28AM
Once all the major languages in the world were in unicode they needed to self-perpetuate themselves instead of going 'Our job is done, we're disbanding this committee until sometime in the future when other languages typesets need to be added or corrected.'
As a result we have the current mess of unicode, where a few legitimately needed typographic characters get appended to the end of existing character sets while it mostly gets stuffed with 'filled' characters in the form of emojis to help perpetuate the need for the Unicode Standards Committee, so they get to fly places, bill food, etc all on their employer or the organization's dime.