https://jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/breaking-the-cycle
"This past Fall, the Unicode Technical Committee announced the delay of Unicode
16.0. This wasn’t without precedent — COVID slowed down the release of Unicode
14.0 in 2020 and the world seemed to survive 😉. Subcommittees were well
prepared and adjusted accordingly, discussing what this meant for their
respective areas of expertise.
For the Emoji Subcommittee (ESC) — the group responsible for defining the
rules, algorithms, and properties necessary to achieve interoperability between
different platforms for those smiley faces that appear on your keyboard (Shout
out 😁🥰🥹🤔🫣🫡😵💫!) — this delay presented an opportunity. Sure, we were so close
to exhaling a sigh of relief (the intake period for Emoji 16.0 proposals had
just completed). But upon learning we couldn’t ship any new codepoints until
2024 we turned our energy towards recommending new emoji based on existing
ones. (These are called emoji ZWJ sequences. That's when a combination of
multiple emoji display as a single emoji … like 👩 🏽 +🏭 = 🧑🏽🏭)."
Via Christoph S.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
