AppleInsider Staff
The Unicode Consortium on Thursday announced and published samples of 72 new emoji characters set for release as part of Unicode 9.0 in June, including what is sure to be a crowd favorite: the cucumber.
Rendered in "Apple Style" — glossy, with a mix of photorealistic and cartoon style imagery — by Emojipedia, the new emoji feature future classics "Mother Christmas" and "Man in Tuxedo." Among the more contemporary offerings is "Selfie," a hand holding an iPhone which, if you look closely, is displaying the new "Face Palm" character.
Those looking forward to texting characters expressing their love of rifles and the modern pentathlon, both of which were initially planned for inclusion in Unicode 9.0, will have to wait a bit longer as those characters were removed in May.
Along with emoji, Unicode 9.0 will include 19 symbols used in Japanese TV broadcasting, as well as modern scripts like Adlam, Osage, and Newa, and historic scripts including Bhaiksuki, Marchen, and Tangut. Other backend changes and modifications are detailed in the consortium's latest release notes.
The Unicode Standard version 9.0 specification is pending with an expected final publication date coming on June 21.
Apple is traditionally one of the first manufacturers to incorporate Unicode's latest emoji library in public release. Last year Apple introduced Unicode 8.0 emoji support in the first iOS 9 point update in October.
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Finally getting the "Fingers Crossed" Emoji. I can't believe it's taken this long for that to be included.
FacePalm!
YES!!
They should really start getting rid of the ones that are least used. It's getting to be too much.
I'm not a big follower of what's happening in the emoji world, but does a male face palm already exist?
If not, then that's extremely sexist, and it disturbs me greatly. It's also probably racist too, that goes without even saying. Can anybody help me find a safe space? I have been triggered.
Also, the timing of that big Ape emoji is quite a coincidence, given that a certain Ape that looks a lot like the emoji was all over the news recently, having been shot and killed, caused ironically by horrible human parenting.
Really hope Apple updates the emoji chooser in iOS10, hopefully to include text search.
I remember clip art.