Unicode's Emoji 12.0 candidates for iOS 13 include more skin tone combos & handicap option...
The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday showed off 236 draft candidates for Emoji 12.0, which should make its way onto Apple platforms sometime in 2019 with iOS 13 and macOS 10.15.
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Some of the proposed additions include skin tone variations for multi-person characters, such as "holding hands," which will have 55 combinations of skin tones for same- and opposite-sex couples. The six multi-person emoji without specific genders will have five skin tones that can be mixed and matched for diverse families.
50 of the new emoji -- incorporating gender and skin variations -- are themed around accessibility, such as "woman in manual wheelchair."
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Some other incoming characters include a sloth, a flamingo, a kite, and a white heart, Emojipedia noted.
Emoji 12.0 won't be cemented until after Consortium's next Technical Committee meeting in January, the goal being a March launch. Even then it will likely take companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft some time to actually implement the standard.
In fact Apple has yet to support Emoji 11.0 in iOS with just two months left in the year. That will be fixed with the impending release of iOS 12.1, which will add over 70 new characters, such as more hair options, including none at all.
Image Credit: Emojipedia
Some of the proposed additions include skin tone variations for multi-person characters, such as "holding hands," which will have 55 combinations of skin tones for same- and opposite-sex couples. The six multi-person emoji without specific genders will have five skin tones that can be mixed and matched for diverse families.
50 of the new emoji -- incorporating gender and skin variations -- are themed around accessibility, such as "woman in manual wheelchair."
Image Credit: Emojipedia
Some other incoming characters include a sloth, a flamingo, a kite, and a white heart, Emojipedia noted.
Emoji 12.0 won't be cemented until after Consortium's next Technical Committee meeting in January, the goal being a March launch. Even then it will likely take companies like Apple, Google, and Microsoft some time to actually implement the standard.
In fact Apple has yet to support Emoji 11.0 in iOS with just two months left in the year. That will be fixed with the impending release of iOS 12.1, which will add over 70 new characters, such as more hair options, including none at all.
Comments
difficult to know/guess which keywords are tied to certain emoji so that after typing you can pick it.
Where are new Macs?
Or maybe they should go back to the yellow cartoon people and call it a f'ing day.
It occurs to me that the amount of resistance these kinds of articles bring up, shows me how entrenched we are in our idea of what is acceptable and how limited it is to the rest of the world.
Wake up, people. The world is vast and has many different kinds of people & cultures. Stop your racist & isolationist ideas and grow up. The people around you will greatly appreciate it.
It really is at the point of ludicrously, vanishingly small return. How many of these would ever be used in real life? How often, by what % of the population?
There is a reason alphanumerics are a more efficient and technical form of communication than hieroglyphics. Let’s not retrograde back there.
Just once in a while an apple really is an apple. Take care gentlemen in your presumptions. Because sometimes what one perceive’s is more a reflection of the observer rather than the object of judgement.
You’d think old white men were an endangered species or something.
It’s just an emoji. It can’t hurt you. It’s just a bit of fun for the kids. It doesn’t mean the darker races are taking over, and it won’t have any effect on your rights to beat your wife.