New Delhi: With emojis becoming the new language of communication and also to express our ‘reactions’ on social media, recent additions to the potential list of emojis making their way into smartphone keyboards in the coming year include the obvious-'selfie emoji' among many others from face and people, and food and drink categories.
This week, the Unicode Consortium announced its annual list of 67 potential new emojis to be added in the next edition of Unicode (9.0).
Among the potential emojis, those from the face and people categories include a ‘clown face’ and a ‘lying face’ (Pinocchio). There’s also a ‘face palm’ emoji, one for ‘shrug’ and also a ‘pregnant woman’ emoji among others.
In the food and drink category, the potential emojis include a tumbler filled with whiskey, an avocado, a baguette, and a croissant. New animals such as a bat, deer, duck, and shark are also being considered for the 2016 batch of new emojis.
These emojis are but a rough estimation of what the next Unicode 9.0 might get and the final package won’t be announced until June 2016, Ars Technica notes.
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This year, Unicode 8.0 finally saw the addition of skin tone modifiers for face emojis, which brought in the much-needed racial diversity to the selection.
The process of bundling emojis with Unicode is a lengthy affair as it needs minute checks and tweaks to make sure the suggested emojis are not already there in the wide list of existing characters, the list of characters currently underway scrutiny, or the list of characters which have been already rejected.
The proposal for any characters requires one to fill out a form to establish the significance of the character and its relation to the existing characters. It would also include the name and contact information for a company or individual who would agree to provide a computerized font... for publication of the standard.
These proposals are then screened, sent to committee, and finally defended and revised by the original submitter as needed until they are accepted or rejected.
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