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The proposal was approved by the Unicode Consortium in November, 2016 [4] and the emoji was unveiled by Apple on World Emoji Day in 2017 along with over 12 other emojis that included a woman breastfeeding and a meditating man. [7] The emoji launched into keyboards in 2017 as "1F9D5 Person With Headscarf" with Messer’s design. [9]
The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. [4] Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.
637 of the 768 code points in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block are considered emoji. 242 of the 256 code points in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block are considered emoji. All of the 114 code points in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block are considered emoji. 105 of the 118 code points in the Transport and ...
Unicode chart single emojis}} provides a list of single Unicode emoji code points. It uses the same style as the Unicode charts but emoji are not contained in a single Unicode block (and there's no Unicode block named "Emoji"). The list only contains singletons: Sequences containing multiple emoji are not shown.
Official Unicode Consortium code chart ... The block has four standardized variants defined to specify emoji ... (1999-06-21), "C1 Controls", Approved Minutes from ...
Official Unicode Consortium code chart ... Emoji ZWJ Sequences for Unicode 14.0 [Affects U+1F468, 1F469 ... [Affects U+1F426]", Approved Minutes of UTC Meeting ...
The introduction of Unicode emoji created an incentive for vendors to improve their support for non-BMP characters. [85] The Unicode Consortium notes that "[b]ecause of the demand for emoji, many implementations have upgraded their Unicode support substantially", also helping support minority languages that use those features. [84]
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2. ^ Empty areas indicate code points assigned to non-emoticon characters 3. ^ U+263A and U+263B are inherited from Microsoft code page 437 introduced in 1981, although inspired by older systems