Bacon, avocado, Mrs. Claus. As Emoji appear on your phone
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
What Emoji you are missing? And without which we can not do? New York Times how to create, approved and appear in your phone symbols, without which it is difficult to imagine the daily correspondence.
Organization dedicated to the standardization of Emoji, is considered almost "secret" among the inhabitants. People who decide what kind of face icon on your keyboard next, are at the forefront of pop culture. The atmosphere of mystery, however, is much exaggerated. The new party Emoji considered honest and open, and anyone can make a contribution to the development of the language.
And we're not a typo: there are all prerequisites to consider Emoji almost tongue. Some convincing arguments in favor of this can give Mark Davis, co-founder and President of the Unicode Consortium. According to him, the approval of a smiley - a complex process, but no one can predict the number of connotations that acquires image after publication.
Therefore, the words, you could say: "Today I get up at seven in the morning, take a shower and go for a walk, but if it will rain on the street, I'll stay at home and see the show." But the same phrase written Emoji can be interpreted in a thousand ways, and will never be unambiguous.
Mark Davis recently finished the discussion of the new Emoji group, which will be included in the official keyboard. Among the upcoming emoticons - the groom in a tuxedo, Mrs. Claus (in the company to Santa Claus), a pregnant woman, shark, avocado and bacon. And by the way, is no mystery in the work of Davis and his colleagues there. All discussions take place as transparently as possible, and the discussion is documented and published on the official website. The working group includes representatives from Apple, Google and Facebook, and they are going to approve the new Emoji every three months.
Unicode was launched in 1980 as a consortium, designed to develop a standardized code for text characters. Each letter, number or punctuation mark is assigned a unique number that is recognized by any operating system. The same applies to the Emoji. Some of them, by the way, even became the subject of debate. For example, many people do not like the fact that all smiles - skinned, and after discussion, it was decided to include images with different skin tones in the standard set. Or, say, the prospect of Emoji-rifle has caused violent protests parent organizations worldwide.
However, not everyone is ready to consider a new language Emoji. For example, Colin Rothfels whose profession is called "Emoji-grammarian", believes that a set of emoticons is too limited and it is not enough to express their thoughts. But to abandon the possibility of development is not: we all remember the story of the Emoji, eggplant, which was ambiguous interpretation immediately after the appearance.
In any case, before you start to live their own lives, Emoji pass through several stages of approval. Their propounded by, during which examines possible extent and frequency of administration, compatibility with existing Unicode system, and so on. Still there is such a factor as the fullness. For example, after the appearance of Emoji as a Christian church, the complementary image of the mosque, the synagogue and the common religious symbol was adopted immediately by a group.
During the Olympic Games Emoji set I received a lot of smiles in the form of sports characters. This was done to the people it was more convenient to discuss the results of competitions. It was then presented the sign-rifle, but not as a symbol of militancy, as well as the embodiment of the Olympic disciplines.
But even in the case where the smiles have gone through all the stages of testing and have been approved, they do not immediately appear in your phone. Ahead of waiting for large jobs need to implement new Emoji for each operating system. They are testing, changing, adjusted to perfection. And then we will present to all.
By the way, want to know what your favorite Emoji a person who approves new emoticons for us? Mark Davis discovered the secret, saying that most often uses this sign:
Based on materials New York Times.