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HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the ...
To modify an emoji representing a human or body part, the emoji modifier must be placed immediately after that emoji. [ 12 ] When the emoji modifier is applied to an emoji, the emoji-style variant selectior (U+FE0F) should be omitted because the emoji modifier automatically implies emoji-style presentation.
The Universal Coded Character Set (UCS, Unicode) is a standard set of characters defined by the international standard ISO/IEC 10646, Information technology — Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) (plus amendments to that standard), which is the basis of many character encodings, improving as characters from previously unrepresented writing systems are added.
Emoticons is a Unicode block containing emoticons or emoji. [3] [4] [5] Most of them are intended as representations of faces, although some of them include hand gestures or non-human characters (a horned "imp", monkeys, cartoon cats).
Emoji became increasingly popular worldwide in the 2010s after Unicode began encoding emoji into the Unicode Standard. [7] [8] [9] They are now considered to be a large part of popular culture in the West and around the world. [10] [11] In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the Face with Tears of Joy emoji (😂) the word of the year. [12] [13]
With the release of iOS 15.4, Apple introduced new emojis, implementing Unicode 14 emoji recommendations. [50] [51] Release of iOS 16.4 added Unicode 15 emoji. [52] [53] Release of iOS 17.4 added Unicode 15.1 emoji. [54] [55] Emojis from iOS are added to the macOS version released at the same time as the iOS version. [citation needed]
Unicode was designed to provide code-point-by-code-point round-trip format conversion to and from any preexisting character encodings, so that text files in older character sets can be converted to Unicode and then back and get back the same file, without employing context-dependent interpretation.
Daniel, Jennifer (2020-01-03), Recommendations for Emoji ZWJ Sequences for multi-skintoned handshake for Unicode 14.0 L2/20-015R Moore, Lisa (2020-05-14), "E.1.3.1 Recommendations for Emoji ZWJ sequences for multi-skintoned handshake for Unicode 14.0", Draft Minutes of UTC Meeting 162