Reading again to understand that this isn't something that Apple is behind or is doing might be of some help.
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T-Rex, Hedgehog, Sandwich, Vampire and Zombie Among Emoji Proposed for 2017's Unicode 10
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I've just got my MBP. It's so awesome. I've literally spent 45 minutes trying to decide which emoji to use. Soz. Can't talk now as I'm too busy DJing
Idiocracy is happening sooner than we thought. They should just go ahead and do the ones from the hospital scene, too. It's the direction we're heading.
what? a blue one with a ring of gold stars?And all I want is a Scotland flag
Dont you just use the iOS functionality that automatically proposes emoji whilst you are typing or when you hit the emoji button/smiley face it highlights words in your typing that can be replaced by emoji? It only works for exact replacements though so still needs work to be able interpret which emoji you might want.
Also, head scarfs are outlawed in France, so that will have to be a regional emoji.
Yep, waiting for the suicide vest one. LOL.
This is just stupidity. Soon they will remove the keyboard, and just tell you to communicate in emoji's.
No, a proper Saltire.
But seriously this makes page one of MR?
I rarely post anymore, but this is important
The Unicode Consortium has in recent years been demoted in the public eye to simply being "the emoji guys". This is incredibly far from the truth about what they actually do however. Emoji is a tiny portion of the consortium's responsibilities, and in fact, only because of... I forget if it's China or Japan. Anyhow, the Unicode Consortium maintain's the electronic standard for communication. This means they are responsible for standardising encoding of characters and symbols from different languages, such that a computer made for, let's say Arabic speaking people, will be able to render both Arabic, Latin and whatever other letters you might imagine, properly. And this is regardless of whether it's on a Mac, Linux PC or Windows. They all follow Unicode, and all characters are visible across all systems, because Unicode dictates how they are encoded, such that we can see everything. That said, how the symbols are implemented may vary, but the encoding and meaning must be the same. If it weren't, you wouldn't be able to see letters like å or ∂ on your computer if it were a different make from mine. Whenever the Unicode standard gets updated, it often brings major communicative and linguistic improvements that are deemed unimportant by the mainstream populous, because emoji... And because you're probably not gonna write in Inuktitut anyway. They are however not a governing body for emoji, but rather the governing body that controls the international standardisation of communication through electronic devices. Chinese or Japanese phone operators invented emoji, and because they needed to be visible on all devices when Unicode went along and standardised it all, they had to take emoji in as a responsibility as well, but it's far from their focus
Exactly right. As a bit of a language nerd, I kinda think of them as emotion modifiers for the contents of the text.
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I think Apple should charge $5 an emoji and that will be an excellent test to see if people actually want this ...outside of teens.
Wait, is one of those a woman breastfeeding a baby? Seems odd to have that one. I can't think of a situation to use it... except... oh dang...
The Unicode Consortium today published the list of proposed emoji that could potentially be included in Unicode 10, set to be released in 2017, giving us a first glimpse at the emojis we might see included in future iOS updates.
Today's proposal includes 51 emoji candidates [PDF], including flying saucer, shocked face with exploding head, face with open mouth vomiting, grinning face with star eyes, coconut, broccoli, pie, pretzel, sandwich, t-rex, giraffe face, sauropod (basically a brontosaurus), hedgehog, mage, vampire, fairy, elf, genie, zombie, and tons more.
Emoji candidates are often chosen for multiple reasons, ranging from expected high frequency of use to requests from online communities. Others fill in gaps in existing emoji sets or are compatible with current emoji characters.
The Unicode 10 emoji candidates are not yet finalized, so it is possible some of the characters on the list could be eliminated. We may also see new emoji additions before Unicode 10 is finalized in 2017.
With emoji growing in popularity, Apple has started adopting new emojis more frequently. iOS 10.2 includes support for Unicode 9 emoji, introducing characters like clown face, drooling face, selfie, face palm, fox face, avocado, bacon, and croissant, along with dozens of profession emoji.
Unicode 9 was first approved in June of 2016, so we can perhaps expect to see Apple adopt Unicode 10 within six months of its release.
Article Link: T-Rex, Hedgehog, Sandwich, Vampire and Zombie Among Emoji Proposed for 2017's Unicode 10
Where is the chicken hawk emoji?
Since this is on top of Apple's To Do list, why doesn't macrumors support the flood of emojis on iOS? I always find these )) quite boring.
)) quite boring.