6d ago

🥳 Say Hello to the New Emoji Coming in Unicode 17.0 This Fall! ✨

blog.unicode.org

Trombone
Treasure Chest
Distorted Face
Hairy Creature
Fight Cloud
Apple Core
Orca
Ballet Dancers
Landslide

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"Distorted Face" is awesome, I'll get a lot of use out of that.
- 😳 2.0
Why is it "hairy creature" and not "bigfoot"? Is bigfoot trademarked or something?
- Yeti? That's bigfoot, and very obviously so. It's the classic bigfoot pose, from the most well known "photo". And Yetis are generally depicted as white or grey in color, not always, but mostly.
  Your comment is like someone posting a very clear image of a watermelon with the title "oblong melon" and you commenting "Why is it "Oblong melon" and not "honeydew"? Is* honeydew trademarked or something?"
  
  Yeti? That’s bigfoot
  D'oh yes, that's what I meant.
  Your comment is like
  It was obviously a mistake. Chill.
- this "hairy creature" bullshit is sasquatch erasure thats what it is!!
- It leaves it open for creativity, though.
  
  That doesn't make sense. The motivation for adding it was to let people say "Bigfoot". If companies draw a generic hairy creature then it isn't communicating that.
- Maybe not to get sued from the company? Just guessing
Gonna be fun to see the different designs from Apple, Samsung etc. especially Distorted Face and Hairy Creature.
This is how the Unicode Consortium comes up with new emojis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTC9j0QpCBM
They literally made a meme into an emoji 😳
Hello.
Hopefully they add the vegan flag eventually!
- Flags are (mostly) not part of the standard, regional indicator letters are. When you pick the German flag emoji on your keyboard, what you actually type is two characters: [Regional indicator D], [Regional indicator E]. The device what you typed is viewed on, usually chooses to display a German flag when it encounters the DE indicators.
  So adding or removing flags is not up to the Unicode standard, but up to device manufacturers or library authors choosing to interpret the indicator letters in some way. There is nothing stopping Samsung displaying a vegan flag when the indicator letters VEG are used — though you can also argue "vegan" is not a region.
  Some devices can also choose to display a joined sequence of other emoji as a different emoji. Rainbow flag emoji is not in unicode, but many devices display it when the White flag and Rainbow emojis are joined together. So that's another way to achieve it, maybe White flag + Green pepper could be joined to a vegan flag. But they would also not be up to Unicode, but up to devices choosing to display it that way.

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