Unicode Consortium Delays Emoji 14 Update for Six Months, Emoji 13 Characters Not Affected

[macduke]

First the virus came for my sports. Then my child's education. Then my job. Then my grandparents. But my emoji's?

That's the last straw…

 

[swm]

i want an emoji with the funny mustache from the early 1900s

 

[otternonsense]

Good call, I think the world has been traumatised by the virus enough to also have to deal with the terror of genderless Santa 🤦

 

[PostApple2016BrainWash]

Perhaps, a new vaccine emoji for the virus.

 

[chucker23n1]

Emojis are a political playground / virtue signaling by these companies.

Well, “virtue signaling” is a political playground by far-righters, so I guess fair’s fair.
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Instead of focusing on more emojis (there are already too many), they should complete the subscripts and subscript categories with Latin and Greek letters, people has been asking for them for decades.

What do you mean? Which letters are missing?

 

[PostApple2016BrainWash]

Instead of focusing on more emojis (there are already too many), they should complete the subscripts and subscript categories with Latin and Greek letters, people has been asking for them for decades.

The new emoji need to feel interactive.

 

[Skoal]

I know it’s been awhile but thank god they replaced the gun emoji for a toy gun emoji. The world is so much safer now!

 

[Skoal]

They remove the gun emoji but include the middle finger. Amazing.

Exactly! I’m sure gun violence has dropped to an all time low due to their removal of that emoji. However, stabbings have gone way up since they keep the knife emoji around.

Come on Apple. Save us from the knife emoji

 

[paper cup]

why are users here so triggered by emoji? also, i understand the demographic of this site is primarily balding, middle aged men - but that does not excuse some of the borderline transphobic posts on this article.

 

[MrGimper]

You know it’s reached a whole new level of seriousness when emoji are affected.

 

[baryon]

I may be getting old but to me there are two emojis (which used to be called smilies or emoticons back in my day) and they are and

Anything else is ambiguous and I have no idea what the other person is trying to say.

 

[Futurix]

Well, I'm sure this will solve the post-Coronavirus economic meltdown...

P.S. I hate when MacRumours makes up another inane headline focussing on Emoji. Unicode is so much more than just emoji.

 

[57004]

An example from Emoji 13.0 is the black cat, which is internally a combination of the cat emoji and black large square emoji.

This is why Unicode is such a cluster****. Combo codes that people just pulled out of their hats that do different things in different situations, make parsing Unicode for developers super difficult.

 

[McTool]

Yet another one who doesn’t understand that this has nothing to do with Apple. It’s Unicode. Putting so much energy on useless comment.

I can't believe they're putting so much energy on such useless stuff...
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[snek]

It’s good you understand that diversity, inclusion and acceptance are virtuous. But the companies themselves don’t decide which emojis to add, it’s the Unicode Consortium. So the comment is best directed at them, not the companies themselves.

The companies is Uniform Consortium members…

 

[jonnysods]

Well MR fam, it's not just our lives that could be a risk, now it's our emojis? Is nothing sacred?

 

[appahappa]

I don't know if I'm just too old (39) why do we need more and more emojis? It's such a waste of resources. I mean, Unicode Consortium has to coordinate it, developers need to put a lot of work into it...real benefit zero! So what if there was no mammoth emoji?

 

[chucker23n1]

I don't know if I'm just too old (39) why do we need more and more emojis? It's such a waste of resources. I mean, Unicode Consortium has to coordinate it, developers need to put a lot of work into it...real benefit zero! So what if there was no mammoth emoji?

I don't know if I'm just too old (30s) why do we need more and more baseball games? It's such a waste of resources. I mean, MLB has to coordinate it, coaches and athletes need to put a lot of work into it…real benefit zero! So what if there was no world series?

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

Hell yeah, a grave emoji.

 

[xgman]

Really? I don't see how I can live without this update then. I'm going to throw myself in a pit of covid 19.

 

[Blackwell]

I'd like to see a US Navy white hat.

 

[einsteinbqat]

Glue!!! Where's the glue???

 

[vixster1901]

Working remotely, no emoji development 😛

 

[DinkThifferent]

The Unicode Consortium has started to produce emoji face masks that you can put on your emojis to prevent them from contracting Coronavirus

 

[Eorlas]

....is there some aspect about this that needs to happen in person that requires delaying?