The Unicode Consortium, the organisation that co-ordinated the development of Unicode, the industry standard for the representation of text, has accepted the new emojis as candidates for Unicode 9, an update which will be released in mid-2016.
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In the family section, only new emoji we have here is of a pregnant woman.
“As a visual language emoji has already far eclipsed hieroglyphics, its ancient Egyptian precursor which took centuries to develop”, Evans said.
Or maybe you want to describe your new “clean eating” regime and the only image you can think of that properly gets it right, is the righteous (and insanely fashionable) avocado – and yet all you find yourself flicking between is the random bowl of soup and the tomato…
The original dancer was meant to be genderless – but now there’s a male equivalent in the running.
Set to be part of the Unicode 9 update, the revamped emoji line-up is expected to rollout next summer, so the wait for the scooter and handshake emoji continues – sad face.
Clinking of glasses could be a quick way to denote a special occasion, black heart to bluntly depict a dying romance, and the pregnant woman emoji will require no more words of explanation or details.
For animal lovers, the list also includes a fearsome-looking shark, a bat and an eagle in flight.
New candidates include a face with cowboy hat, clown face, nauseated face, rolling on the floor laughing, drooling face, lying face, selfie, shrug and face palm.
There are few other prospective emoji characters that are under assessment and can be approved in future, the Consortium added.
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Not just one type of scooter, but two. They include a shopping cart, a human leg, a spoon, a stuffed flat bread, a pan, a butterfly, and a gorilla.
