The Unicode Consortium has introduced the fourteenth version of the universal text encoding standard with 838 new characters. 112 new emojis were added, with a total of 3663 emoticons in the encoding table.
Of the new, we can note koloboks that melt, wonder, salute and cry with happiness.
New gestures have appeared: for example, a heart from two hands and a heart with fingers. The latter is popular in parts of Asia, especially with K-Pop artists and fans. Also added combinations of handshakes of people of different races.
A heated discussion was caused by the smileys of men, which repeat the smileys of pregnant women. In the media, transgender people Thomas Beaty and Scott Moore are known as “pregnant men”. Some saw in these smiles of simply overeating men.
In addition to emoji, new text characters have been added to Unicode 14. For example, the notes of the Old Russian znamenny chant.
Companies will soon need to update fonts for new emojis and symbols to appear in services and operating systems. It is assumed that Google will introduce support for them in its services and Android 12 at the end of 2021, the rest as early as next year.
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