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Title: Twitter’s new emoji support brings tacos, burritos, and racial diversity Post by: HCK on December 12, 2015, 09:00:15 am Twitter’s new emoji support brings tacos, burritos, and racial diversity
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Twitter is stepping up its emoji game with Unicode 8 support on the desktop website.</p><p> The latest version of the Unicode standard adds dozens more characters (http://emojipedia.org/unicode-8.0/), including Taco (http://emojipedia.org/taco/), Burrito (http://emojipedia.org/burrito/), Unicorn Face (http://emojipedia.org/unicorn-face/), and Sign of the Horns (http://emojipedia.org/sign-of-the-horns/).</p><p> Unicode 8 also brings an eye toward diversity, as users are able to modify the skin tone of hands and faces. The new standard includes several new places of worship as well, including Synagogue and Mosque, and allows family emojis to include same-sex couples.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3014164/internet/twitter-s-new-emoji-support-brings-tacos-burritos-and-racial-diversity.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Twitter’s new emoji support brings tacos, burritos, and racial diversity (http://www.macworld.com/article/3014164/internet/twitter-s-new-emoji-support-brings-tacos-burritos-and-racial-diversity.html#tk.rss_all) |