16.06.2014 23:36 Uhr, Quelle: Macrumors

250 New Emojis Introduced Today, May See Inclusion in Future Versions of iOS

The Unicode Consortium version 7.0 of the , which will see the introduction of approximately 250 new emoji that could be included in future versions of the Android and iOS operating systems. According to the Unicode Consortium, the new emoji characters are primarily derived from characters used in the Wingdings and Webdings fonts, as seen in an example image: As noted by , Unicode member platforms like iOS and Android will need to implement support for the new standard and create pictographs to represent the emoji, which are only described by Unicode in plain text. Unicode A full list of the new emoji names can be found on , which includes descriptions for each future emoji, such as "white sun behind cloud," "man in business suit levitating," "derelict house building," "chipmunk," "flying envelope," and more. Earlier this year, Apple began working with the Unicode Consortium to introduce more characters to its emoji offerings, to the character set, but this update does not seem to focus on people emoji.

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