Emojis showing girl in hijab |
A woman wearing a hijab, woman breastfeeding a baby and a person doing yoga are among the latest emojis that would come to your smartphone keyboard soon. The new emojis are likely to arrive on smartphones next year after Unicode, the international consortium that sets their global standards, proposed the 51 icons. It will take the total number of the cartoon images, which are increasingly being used to replace words in text messages, to 1,724. Rayouf Alhumedhi, a 15-year-old from Germany, had campaigned for the inclusion of the character wearing a hijab emoji, proposing it to Unicode after realising there was no emoji to represent her.Among the list of introductions are ‘person with headscarf’, ‘breastfeeding’, ‘bearded person’, ‘older adult’, reflecting the current lack of grandparent icons.Other emojis that will be released in 2017 by Unicode are a head exploding, a face with open mouth vomiting and a man and woman practising yoga.
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