Breastfeeding, T-Rex highlight proposed shortlist of 51 emoji set to debut in 2017
The Unicode Consortium on Thursday announced an updated shortlist of 51 new emoji characters that could see release next year as part of Unicode 10, with additions ranging from familiar yellow faces to animals and various food items.
Today's proposal from the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee (PDF link) is a more complete representation of the character set scheduled for introduction wth Unicode 10. The consortium in May published a provisional list of eight prior emoji candidates, including "Face With One Eyebrow Raised" or "Colbert emoji," all of which are included in the most recent lineup.
Highlighting the new additions are "Breastfeeding" and two dinosaurs -- "T-Rex" and "Sauropod" -- while other examples include "Person with Headscarf," "Mage," "Elf," "Genie," "Zombie," "Brain," "Pretzel," "Canned Food" and "Bearded Person." Foodies were also considered, as food section proposals include "Coconut," "Broccoli" and "Cut of Meat," among others.
As for faces, emoji users are likely to see "Face with Finger Covering Closed Lips," "Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Hand Covering Mouth" and "Grinning Face with Crazy Eyes" debut next year. Other future hits include "Face with Open Mouth Vomiting" and "Shocked Face with Exploding Head."
The Unicode Consortium says a final emoji list will be released alongside Unicode 10 in mid-2017.
Apple is traditionally one of the first smartphone platform stewards to incorporate Unicode's latest emoji library in public release, and has in the past made recommendations to expand the standard. Most recently, the company integrated full Unicode 9.0 emoji support in its latest iOS 10.2 beta, suggesting iPhone and iPad users will soon gain access to the character library.
Today's proposal from the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee (PDF link) is a more complete representation of the character set scheduled for introduction wth Unicode 10. The consortium in May published a provisional list of eight prior emoji candidates, including "Face With One Eyebrow Raised" or "Colbert emoji," all of which are included in the most recent lineup.
Highlighting the new additions are "Breastfeeding" and two dinosaurs -- "T-Rex" and "Sauropod" -- while other examples include "Person with Headscarf," "Mage," "Elf," "Genie," "Zombie," "Brain," "Pretzel," "Canned Food" and "Bearded Person." Foodies were also considered, as food section proposals include "Coconut," "Broccoli" and "Cut of Meat," among others.
As for faces, emoji users are likely to see "Face with Finger Covering Closed Lips," "Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Hand Covering Mouth" and "Grinning Face with Crazy Eyes" debut next year. Other future hits include "Face with Open Mouth Vomiting" and "Shocked Face with Exploding Head."
The Unicode Consortium says a final emoji list will be released alongside Unicode 10 in mid-2017.
Apple is traditionally one of the first smartphone platform stewards to incorporate Unicode's latest emoji library in public release, and has in the past made recommendations to expand the standard. Most recently, the company integrated full Unicode 9.0 emoji support in its latest iOS 10.2 beta, suggesting iPhone and iPad users will soon gain access to the character library.
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What a bunch of freaks.
Whoever is behind choosing and coming up with some of these emojiis are seriously demented and screwed up people.
OK, who had the headscarf in the pool? I was sure someone would go for the breastfeeding first.
I've come up with a system where you can have endless emoji and still keep a streamlined emoji keyboard with only the essentials. Basically only have the obscure ones show up in predictive text when you type the word. This gives more emoji flexibility while keeping the interface simple and faster.
having a little "+" like the iMessage apps on the keyboard also helps. In case you want to add some obscure emoji to your keyboard.
I'll take one of those girls over the gross American skanks any day.
For example, that headscarf emoji reminds me of something else, so from now on, I'll be using the headscarf emoji when referring to Jawas.
The similarities are quite striking and Star Wars fans should be happy with that emoji, since I don't believe that there are any official Star Wars characters in the set yet.
Are you sure that you wouldn't be happier in a country like Saudi Arabia, and not the USA?
To me they symbolise Apple's current priorities.
Also, I dislike the way that many of the emojis show up looking different in different email clients, e.g., Apple Mail versus Gmail versus Outlook. I had thought there were some universal standards for appearance, but apparently not.
The headscarf (hijab) on a woman is a symbol of support for the Islamic movement. The root of the Islamic movement is the Quran. The Quran is replete with messages of animosity towards non-followers. In madrassahs all over the world Muslims are taught that those who anger Allah are Jews, and those who have gone astray are Christians.
In chapter 5, verse 51 it says this: "O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you - then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people."
The above isn't qualified, it is a blanket statement, and the Quran is promoted as a book relevant to all people for all time.
And it gets a lot worse.
The Quran is a pretty uncomfortable read for non-followers (and women) and given the Islamic movement is based on the Quran, it is certainly not benign to secular democratic liberal societies. Many Muslims fit in to these societies only be ignoring the Quranic main theme of condemning non-believers. Muslims in movements like the Islamic State don't ignore the Quranic brutality and animosity - hence heir vile disposition and behaviour.
Many liberals approach one's Muslim membership as an inherent quality - thus criticising it is deemed 'racist'. But of course there is no gene for Islam, or Christianity or Judaism, or any creed. Religion is an ideology and it's a CHOICE (once one is an adult) as to whether one wishes to be a member and promote it.
By treating the Muslim membership as an inherent quality, Liberals are undermining those people who were told they were Muslims but decided to leave once they were adults and actually considered what the creed espoused and rejected it. Many Muslim apostates are treated appallingly within Muslim communities where adopting Western dispositions and values are often deemed a betrayal and a crime - that's within the West; declaring apostasy in Muslim political jurisdictions is effectively a suicide announcement.
Liberals should be supporting apostates, not undermining them. http://www.exmna.org/
As to emojis in general, especially the recent and growing volume, in terms of communicating, they are often a time-wasting distraction.
You might have to switch on the Input menu in the Keyboard Preferences.
In many parts of the world outside the USA wearing guns or the carrying of firearms is just not allowed/very illegal.
Remember these Emojii are for use everywhere on the planet not just in that backwater that is the USA.