If you’ve ever been too hungover to type “bacon” in full, or felt the
“face with tears of joy” had lost its impact as an expression of
amusement, rejoice – your digital vocabulary is about to expand with the
approval of more than 70 new emoji characters.
Seventy-two new emojis are to be made available with the release of Unicode 9. Among them is a “person doing cartwheel”, avocado, doner kebab, pregnant woman, tumbler glass, boxing glove, and first, second and third place medals.
A woeful underrepresentation of breakfast foods – currently limited to bread, honey, fried egg in pan (“cooking”) and various fruit – is addressed with the addition of croissant, baguette, pancakes, bacon, egg and avocado.
For the health-conscious, there is green salad.
Joining the Animals & Nature subcategory is gorilla, fox face, deer, rhinoceros, bat, eagle, duck, owl, lizard, shark, shrimp, squid and butterfly.
Enthusiasts of martial arts, scooters, canoeing, boxing, handball, fencing, juggling and water polo will also have their digital communication needs met by the new update.
Though a proposal for more professional women figures put forward by Google employees in May remains a work in progress, the introduction of a prince emoji – the pair of the princess – is a step towards gender equality.
And “face palm” is bound to revolutionise discourse on Twitter, just as “thinking face” (Unicode 8.0, 2015) did before it.
Jeremy Burge, the founder of Emojipedia and World Emoji Day, said searches of his online resource had been “overwhelmingly” for the shrug and the fingers crossed.
“I’m a big avocado-for-breakast kind of guy, so that will be the one I use a lot. I’m sure the face palm will also be very popular. It’s a very flexible gesture.”
The Unicode consortium, the body that controls and approves universal software standards for letters and other characters, approved the 72 emoji characters on 2 June.
Individual vendors such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft will be able to roll out the new emojis – joining the 1,601 already in existence – from 21 June. In the meantime Emojipedia has created mock-ups in the Apple style.
Two proposed emoji were rejected: “Modern Pentathlon” and “Rifle”, indicating that some vendors did not plan to support them.
Meanwhile, more details of Unicode 10.0, slated for release next year, are becoming clear.
A meeting of the Unicode technical committee in early May indicates that orange heart, sled and curling stone are on the cards, as well as dumpling, takeout box, chopsticks, fortune cookie and “face with one eyebrow raised”.
Proposals were also put forward to expand the range of professions and to introduce three dinosaurs (the tyrannosaurus rex, the brontosaurus and the triceratops) and the “three-fingered salute”.
These “were referred to the Emoji subcommittee to look at how these might fit into broader emoji proposals”, Burge reports on Emojipedia.
Better representation of women remains the highest-priority item for Unicode, he said, with only a bride and princess alongside male spy, guardsman, construction worker, police officer, and Father Christmas.
Seventy-two new emojis are to be made available with the release of Unicode 9. Among them is a “person doing cartwheel”, avocado, doner kebab, pregnant woman, tumbler glass, boxing glove, and first, second and third place medals.
A woeful underrepresentation of breakfast foods – currently limited to bread, honey, fried egg in pan (“cooking”) and various fruit – is addressed with the addition of croissant, baguette, pancakes, bacon, egg and avocado.
For the health-conscious, there is green salad.
Joining the Animals & Nature subcategory is gorilla, fox face, deer, rhinoceros, bat, eagle, duck, owl, lizard, shark, shrimp, squid and butterfly.
Enthusiasts of martial arts, scooters, canoeing, boxing, handball, fencing, juggling and water polo will also have their digital communication needs met by the new update.
Though a proposal for more professional women figures put forward by Google employees in May remains a work in progress, the introduction of a prince emoji – the pair of the princess – is a step towards gender equality.
And “face palm” is bound to revolutionise discourse on Twitter, just as “thinking face” (Unicode 8.0, 2015) did before it.
Jeremy Burge, the founder of Emojipedia and World Emoji Day, said searches of his online resource had been “overwhelmingly” for the shrug and the fingers crossed.
“I’m a big avocado-for-breakast kind of guy, so that will be the one I use a lot. I’m sure the face palm will also be very popular. It’s a very flexible gesture.”
The Unicode consortium, the body that controls and approves universal software standards for letters and other characters, approved the 72 emoji characters on 2 June.
Individual vendors such as Apple, Google, and Microsoft will be able to roll out the new emojis – joining the 1,601 already in existence – from 21 June. In the meantime Emojipedia has created mock-ups in the Apple style.
Two proposed emoji were rejected: “Modern Pentathlon” and “Rifle”, indicating that some vendors did not plan to support them.
Meanwhile, more details of Unicode 10.0, slated for release next year, are becoming clear.
A meeting of the Unicode technical committee in early May indicates that orange heart, sled and curling stone are on the cards, as well as dumpling, takeout box, chopsticks, fortune cookie and “face with one eyebrow raised”.
Proposals were also put forward to expand the range of professions and to introduce three dinosaurs (the tyrannosaurus rex, the brontosaurus and the triceratops) and the “three-fingered salute”.
These “were referred to the Emoji subcommittee to look at how these might fit into broader emoji proposals”, Burge reports on Emojipedia.
Better representation of women remains the highest-priority item for Unicode, he said, with only a bride and princess alongside male spy, guardsman, construction worker, police officer, and Father Christmas.
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