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What about family emojis then, e.g. https://emojipedia.org/family-woman-woman-girl-boy/ https://emojipedia.org/family-woman-woman-girl-boy/? Blended families ar
by pb060 5y ago
What about family emojis then, e.g. https://emojipedia.org/family-woman-woman-girl-boy/ https://emojipedia.org/family-woman-woman-girl-boy/? Blended families are not there. I am the third of three sons, why am I not represented?
- pbronez 5y agoGood question. Maybe this handshake work paves the way to make other emoji more representative too! I bet you could reach out to the author and get involved with making that change.
- barbazoo 5y agoI wonder if that emoji could procedurally be generated on the client without officially deploying every combination to the standard. Male child + Yellow + ZWJ + Gender Neutral child + Yellow + ZWJ + ... And then it builds up the family emoji from the inside out.
- kevincox 5y agoI believe you mean child + male + ZWJ + child + ZWJ ... I think it was mostly a mistake that the joiners started occurring later. Expressed eloquently in https://xkcd.com/1813/ https://xkcd.com/1813/
- Yver 5y agoThe same multi-tone scheme would generate more than 10,000 combinations for the family emoji. I wonder if it will ever be seriously considered.
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- xxemogirl694uxx 5y agoThis was proposed: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19392-emoji-multi-recs.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19392-emoji-multi-recs.pdf And declined to make RGI: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20114r-family-emoji-explor.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20114r-family-emoji-explor....
- xxemogirl694uxx 5y agoYeah, the family emoji are a mistake of sorts. Fortunately, individual emoji strung together convey the idea of a "mixed family" with three kids and require no effort on Unicode's part to add new emoji. Ex: