Unicode Emoji 12.0 — final for 2019

emoji 12 image Emoji 12.0 <http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/12.0/>
data has been released, with 59 new emoji such as:

mechanical arm image

mechanical arm

deaf person image

deaf person

people holding hands image

people holding hands

otter image

otter

waffle image

waffle

ice cube image

ice cube

ringed planet image

ringed planet

drop of blood image

drop of blood

With 171 variants for gender and skin tone, this makes a total of 230
emoji including variants, such as:

The new emoji are listed in Emoji Recently Added v12.0
<https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-12.0/emoji-released.html>, with sample
images. These images are just samples: vendors for mobile phones, PCs,
and web platforms will typically use images that fit their overall emoji
designs. In particular, the Emoji Ordering v12.0
<https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-12.0/emoji-ordering.html> chart shows
how the new emoji sort compared to the others, with new emoji marked
with rounded-rectangles. The other Emoji Charts for Version 12.0
<https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-12.0/index.html> have been updated to
show the emoji.

The new emoji typically start showing up on mobile phones in
September/October — some platforms may release them earlier. The new
emoji will soon be available for adoption
<http://unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html> to help the
Unicode Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages.

For implementers:

   1. The new Emoji 12.0 <http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/12.0/> set
      includes the data needed for vendors to begin working on their
      emoji fonts and code ahead of the release of Unicode 12.0,
      scheduled for March 5.
   2. The emoji specification (UTS #51
      <https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-16.html>) has
      additional guidelines on gender and skin tone, and other
      clarifications. The definitions in UTS #51
      <https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-16.html> and data files
      and have been enhanced to be more consistent and useful. For
      details, see Modifications
      <https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/tr51-16.html#Modifications>
   3. The people holding hands emoji now have four combinations of
      gender and all the various combinations of skin tones, for a total
      of 71 new variants. Implementations may optionally support
      skin-tone combinations for other multi-person emoji.
   4. The CLDR <http://cldr.unicode.org/> names and search keywords for
      the new emoji characters in over 80 languages, and the sort order
      for emoji, will be finalized by the end of March with the release
      of CLDR v35.

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/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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http://blog.unicode.org/2019/02/unicode-emoji-12-final-for-2019.html

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