'Cold' smiley, frowning poo among 67 emoji potentially headed to iPhone & Mac in 2018
The Unicode Technical Committee has introduced 67 emoji as "draft candidates" for inclusion in the Unicode 11 standard come the second half of 2018, which may dictate what characters will be seen in "iOS 12" and the follow-up to macOS High Sierra.
A few examples include a bagel, broom, cupcake, kangaroo, salt shaker, and a frowning version of the infamous poo emoji, according to Emojipedia. New smileys could include cold, hot, party, "loved," and "hero" options, among others.
The 67 characters join emoji already on the candidate list, such as a test tube and redheads. Notably, any expansions involving gender or skin tone will be settled at a later time, since they don't require approving new code points.
The UTC will decide on a final list of candidates at its October meeting, and should be ready to share relevant data with platform holders like Apple and Google in early 2018. While Apple will sometimes have unique renderings of emoji, it's largely obligated to conform to the Unicode standard so that people can communicate with other platforms.
Unicode 10 should come to Apple platforms alongside iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, due this fall.
A few examples include a bagel, broom, cupcake, kangaroo, salt shaker, and a frowning version of the infamous poo emoji, according to Emojipedia. New smileys could include cold, hot, party, "loved," and "hero" options, among others.
The 67 characters join emoji already on the candidate list, such as a test tube and redheads. Notably, any expansions involving gender or skin tone will be settled at a later time, since they don't require approving new code points.
The UTC will decide on a final list of candidates at its October meeting, and should be ready to share relevant data with platform holders like Apple and Google in early 2018. While Apple will sometimes have unique renderings of emoji, it's largely obligated to conform to the Unicode standard so that people can communicate with other platforms.
Unicode 10 should come to Apple platforms alongside iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra, due this fall.
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Ok, but why are their hundreds of "emojis" that have nothing to do with emotion? Messages now "suggests" that I swap out the word "train" for a teeny picture of a train. How does that make any sense? It just seems like this jumped the shark a few years ago. The proportion of emojis used satirically (e.g., "look how stupid this is that I swapped out a work for a picture" as opposed to "this emoji added value to the conversation or was more efficient than typing the word") is very high.
I'm sure he stands corrected with your excellent example of "appropriate" use :-)
But it's all moot since you can turn off the Emoji keyboard in iOS.
Indeed I was. Thank you for the clarification. Obviously they are easily confused since many systems automagically transforms emoticons into emojis.
There's a website (or hundreds) where you can type a phrase in and have it spit out emoji, even with those nothing I want to say exists in emoji it just makes me wonder what the whole point of this craze is. It's fun in concept but in practice I find it annoying to get a string of emoji characters that are intended to mean something but make absolutely no sense to me, what language are they teaching to kids these days?
Of course there is one awesome emoji, the "live long and prosper" emoji, but that's got to be reserved for special occasions for fear of overuse.
Part of the appeal these days is figuring out how to make combinations into meaningful statements rather than word substitution. They get used as euphemisms for things that are vulgar when they are described directly:
or they can be more vulgar than words:
http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/0613/funny-emoji-crude.jpg
When Kirsten Dunst had her pictures hacked, she used emoji in her tweet and I think that was better than writing the expletives out:
Twitter is another reason they are used because they count as a single character so they can express a longer message than the character limit will allow.
For most messages, they just help convey some emotion like happiness, sadness, anger etc where it's either awkward or difficult to phrase e.g "I feel so sad right now about what you just said" vs 😢. There's an emoji tracker for twitter here that shows the frequency of usage:
http://emojitracker.com
You can click each one to see the context they are being used in. The most used one are the emotional ones, some of the lower down ones are used as decorations in messages like flowers, clouds, sun, trees. Emoji have a clear benefit for existing but I think they get far more media coverage than they deserve and they aren't making enough useful ones. The following really don't have any use in a conversation: ➰🔛🔻🅾, so their process for picking new symbols could be improved.