72 more emoticons like shrug, selfie coming soon
Andrew Griffin
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THE INDEPENDENT
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Everyone's emoji vocabu lary is about to receive a huge expansion as authorities roll out new pictures.The Unicode Consortium, which maintains the standards for emoji so that they can work across sites, is sending out a new update.And it includes a wide variety of pictures.
Some of those serve obvious purposes, like a picture that shows someone rolling on the floor laughing or a shrug. Others are slightly more unexpected, like a face with a cowboy hat and a gherkin.
Yet more tend to build on existing pictures to give them more possibilities. That includes the addition of a glass of milk, clinking glasses and a tumbler full of whiskey , building on the existing beer and martini glasses.
It could still take some time for the emoji to actually arrive on your phone. Though the consortium will approve the new emoji towards the end of the month, they have to be drawn and integrated into particular operating systems by the firms that make them.
That has led to some problems with the little images, which experts have said can potentially cause huge amounts of confusion because each company draws them differently .
Some of those serve obvious purposes, like a picture that shows someone rolling on the floor laughing or a shrug. Others are slightly more unexpected, like a face with a cowboy hat and a gherkin.
Yet more tend to build on existing pictures to give them more possibilities. That includes the addition of a glass of milk, clinking glasses and a tumbler full of whiskey , building on the existing beer and martini glasses.
It could still take some time for the emoji to actually arrive on your phone. Though the consortium will approve the new emoji towards the end of the month, they have to be drawn and integrated into particular operating systems by the firms that make them.
That has led to some problems with the little images, which experts have said can potentially cause huge amounts of confusion because each company draws them differently .
Source: Times of India, 4-06-2016
