Unicode Emoji 11.0 Beta

Emoji 11.0 *beta* is now available for developers, with 130 Draft
Candidates, such as:

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/The list is not final: changes can include removals or additions: for
example, new ZWJ sequences could be added./ The decisions of the 2017Q4
UTC meeting for emoji have been incorporated into the draft Charts
<http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts-11.0/index.html>, Specification
<http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-13.html#Modifications>, and
Data <http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/11.0/>, and are now available
for testing and feedback. The contents will be finalized in 2018Q1. The
following are the expected dates for 2018.

*Emoji Set* *Decision date* *Announcement of final list* *Market
availability*
Draft Emoji Candidates
<http://www.unicode.org/emoji/future/emoji-candidates.html> (2018)
2018-01 2018-03 2018H2

The version number for the next release of Unicode emoji is jumping from
the previously-released Emoji 5.0 to Emoji 11.0 (instead of 6.0). This
is due to alignment of the emoji versions in 2018 and beyond with the
versions of the Unicode Standard.

The draft emoji 11.0β Charts
<http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts-11.0/index.html> now show the
candidates in context: for example, Emoji Ordering, v11.0β
<http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts-11.0/emoji-ordering.html> shows the
sorting of all the emoji, with the candidates highlighted with
rounded-rectangles. Feedback <http://www.unicode.org/contacts.html> on
the sort-order, categories, names, and keywords is welcome.

The draft 11.0β Specification
<http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-13.html#Modifications> has a
number of changes, including proposed guidelines for display, handling
gender, handling skin tone, and a proposed mechanism for allowing emoji
to point either to the right or left.

The draft 11.0β Emoji Data <http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/11.0/>
provides property data, which determines how implementations handle the
new characters.

/Over 130,000 characters are available for adoption
<http://unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html>, to help the
Unicode Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages./

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