Emoji will update 25 handshake symbols with different skin tones

According to recent news, The Unicode Consortium will update 25 handshake symbols of different skin colors in the Emoji 14.0 version to embrace the diversity of skin colors. According to the report, since Apple and Google recommended that the Unicode Consortium add skin tones to emojis in 2014, more and more emojis have become more inclusive.

For example, in the 13.1 version of Emoji launched in 2020, there are 6 skin tones to choose from among the 7 new symbols of “women with a beard”, and new skin tones are also available for the “hearts” and “couple kissing” emojis. Grouping changes.

Now, the Unicode Consortium has made a new adjustment. They will add a series of “handshake” symbols in the updated version of “Emoji 14.0”. At that time, users can customize the skin color of the left and right hands in this emoji to achieve 25 A combination of different skin tones. According to reports, in order to realize the diversity of the handshake emoji, the Unicode Consortium and those who promote the update have gone through a long process.

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In August last year, the US technology media The Next Web website discussed with Emojipedia’s founder Jeremy Burge (Jeremy Burge) why the emoji of handshake failed to add skin color. According to Birch, the handshake symbol contains the hands of two people. If you want to add different skin colors to this expression, the limitations of the modifier code will make the two hands share the same skin color, and each hand cannot have a different skin color.

So far, all emojis of two or more people do not support skin color modification in the Unicode RGI (Recommended for General Interchange) list. This is the main reason, Birch said, in order to make the handshake symbol Update, “This requires a new code point for each hand to support different skin tones.”

In fact, since the release of the Emoji 12.0 version update in 2019, the Unicode Consortium has been studying the handshake series of symbols. After two years of development and adjustment, the organization originally planned to update this new series of handshake emoticons in the Emoji 14.0 version released this year. However, due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, the Unicode Alliance previously announced that this version will be delayed.

This means that the new emoji introduced in version 14 will not be available on major platforms such as Google, iOS and Android until 2022, and users will have to wait another year to use this new handshake symbol.

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