jenniferx

Unicode's list of emoji proposal status: https://unicode.org/emoji/emoji-proposals-status.html

U+1F937 - person shrugging U+1F937 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F - man shrugging U+1F937 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F - woman shrugging

Finally, Google made a way to make emoji kitchen in Google Search <3

There are primary focus areas for this release: the depiction of families of all sorts in a single, sequenced emoji, and; directionality. Details on how Unicode plans on addressing them (by proposing 578 new designs for standardization).

Source code spoof-proofing: When does i ≠ і? Improving name formating: Some cultures have one name, others 2 or 3 or more Refining placeholder construction: "Your cart has X items" Continuing to preserve Indigenous languages … and ofc emoji: Flying flags at half-mast

Do "smart" keyboards index too hard on reproducing formal conventions of the written word? Auto-correct, spelling, word suggestion are useful features that fundamentally assume the way we message our friends or leave comments on tiktok is the same way we write a book report.

Can we reconciling the rapid ever changing way we communicate online with the formal methodical process of a standards body that digitizes written languages?

pretty cool i guess