I'm far from an expert on Unicode, but I definitely have the feeling that they've had trouble sticking to their original mission. A few months ago we had a dis

I'm far from an expert on Unicode, but I definitely have the feeling that they've had trouble sticking to their original mission. A few months ago we had a discussion here on HN about some people still not being able to write their names in their native script -- Burmese? maybe, I forget -- but now we have skin tone modifiers for emoji. That said, I guess I agree, if you're going to have emoji at all, you have to at least think about this issue. My inclination would have been to make them all green from the beginning, so there's no question of ethnic favoritism, but I guess it didn't happen that way.