The transgender flag, women wearing tuxedos, bottle-feeding parents, and a gender-neutral Santa are all coming to your phone.
The transgender flag, women wearing tuxedos, bottle-feeding parents and a gender-neutral Santa are part of of the newfrom the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit organization that sets the standards for emoji compatibility and releases new symbols.
The release offers a variety of new gender-inclusive symbols, among them a gender-neutral person and a mustachioed man wear wedding veils, and a gender-neutral person in a tuxedo. These new symbols will expand on the existing ones, which currently only include a man in a tuxedo and a woman wearing a wedding veil.Proposals for new emoji can be submitted by anyone, although corporations such as Google, Microsoft and Apple usually end up with the lion's share of accepted submissions.Italians will also be delighted by the addition of a hand with pinched fingers, titled"Italian Hand Gesture.
Not to be confused with the"chef kiss," this gesture is mostly used to express confusion, disbelief or outright rejection in response to a statement , as well as a way to vigorously and slightly aggressively accompany direct follow-up questions .Among other welcome new entries is a smiley face shedding a single tear, a face disguised with"Groucho glasses," Ninjas, the dodo and the woolly mammoth , a bubble tea and a heart -- that's a literal, anatomical one .
It will then be up to manufacturers of smartphones and other devices to incorporate them via a software update, which is likely to happen in the fall.
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