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The Dumpling Emoji Revolution Coming?

The Dumpling Emoji Revolution Coming?

One Kickstarter campaign hopes to make the dumpling emoji a reality. The campaign “… promises to create a dumpling emoji has topped its goal of $3,750 to raise nearly $12,000 from more than 270 backers…” [ Read more here ]

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Unicode Consortium announces first emojis for Unicode 10 due for release mid-2017

Image: Emojipedia

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Do you want your company to be strongly associated with the 🍔 emoji? Do you feel like the poor semicolon and the equals sign never get any respect? Do you want to declare your love with a 💍 or 💘 dedication for your spouse? Now you can adopt a character! Show your business or hobby with 🎺, honor your Asian heritage with Hana Character Image, or give your niece Olivia the gift of capital letter O. For sports enthusiasts, there are 🎳, 🏄, 🏈, and more. In fact, more than 120,000 characters can be adopted. At the same time, adopting a character helps the non-profit Unicode Consortium in its goal to support the world’s languages.

The Unicode Consortium is running an interesting campaign to adopt a character so that they can support adding more characters from lesser-known languages. From an article in Mirror:  

“Beyond our work standardising emoji, Unicode is tackling some big challenges that might surprise many people,” said Mark Davis, co-founder and president of the Unicode Consortium

"The vast majority of the world’s living languages, close to 98 percent, are 'digitally disadvantaged' – meaning they are not supported on the most popular devices, operating systems, browsers and mobile applications."

In related news, here’s an interesting project to both get a dumpling emoji into Unicode and to form a grassroots organization called Emojination to give the general public a voice in what new emoji are created: 

We want to create a system where popular emoji requests (#emojirequest) can systematically bubble up, and be transformed into proper proposals for the Unicode Consortium.

This isn't just about dumplings. We want to bring giraffes, the Nazar, and other in-demand emoji into the world in a diverse, inclusive way.

For more background see this Buzzfeed interview with Jennifer 8. Lee, founder of Emojination. Lee points out some of the gaps in the current system of proposing emoji (although I disagree with the article’s casual characterization of emoji as language: not all ways of communicating are linguistic).  

“One the bigger problems, she said, is that it is that the Unicode emoji approval process along the way is mostly male, mostly white, mostly engineers, starting from the Emoji Subcommittee,” she said. “People who decide emoji need to be more diverse since this group is not representative and to their credit, they know it, but their biases still pop up.” Outside of the subcommittee, Unicode also has five women on its board of directors, and the technical committee’s chair is Lisa Moore from IBM.

And while a number of members hold advanced degrees in linguistics (Unicode’s president has a Ph.D. in philosophy), there is work to be done. There are, for example, an extraordinary number of emojis surrounding offices and work, Lee said, while noting that there are no household chore–related emojis. That sort of traditionally gendered omission is subtle but insidious in Lee’s eyes. “I have nothing against Unicode, who are great, really, but half the population of the world spends a lot of time washing, cleaning, sweeping, and that’s not represented. That’s a systematic bias.”

I get the sense that no one ever really anticipated that the Unicode Consortium would end up the de facto gatekeepers of a very actively evolving form of communication. They were originally formed to standardize the digital display of long-established systems, but it’s a very different task to research, say, which diacritics or special symbols need to be added in order to accommodate another language when that language has already been written for generations, versus which pictures people would like to be able to send each other sprinkled among their text, when the number of picturable concepts is, if not infinite, at least very much larger than the current set of emoji. And I definitely think some sort of public involvement aspect is going to be essential going forward. 

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Meet the people fighting for more emoji diversity ... with dumplings

We’ve come a long with diverse emojis — but there’s always more to be done. A new campaign called Emojination wants to give everyone a voice in the emoji creation process. And founder Jennifer 8. Lee is going to the source to get it done.

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Does Your Phone Have This Dumpling Emoji?

Does Your Phone Have This Dumpling Emoji?

In honour of World Aids Day (1st December), Durex came up with a campaign to request techies to add a new (ahem) emoji to the list. But more recently, yet another emoji was requested to be added to the digital folio. A group of food lovers and chefs have petitioned to make the dumpling emoji a reality. It’s true that no amount of emojis can capture and express all the users’ needs and…

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