Unicode 10 Launched With 56 New Emojis, Including Bitcoin Symbol
Unicode Consortium has finally released Unicode 10 with 56 new emojis
About 8,518 new characters have also been added in the Unicode 10
The new emojis are expected to be released with iOS 11
The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday announced the launch of Unicode 10 that brings a bunch of new emojis, a new Bitcoin sign, and a set of Typicon symbols. With the Unicode 10, 56 new emojis have been released along with a major addition of 8,518 characters bringing the total number of characters to 136,690. Originally unveiled in March this year, the new emoji characters are likely to debut with the iOS 11 slated to roll out later this year.
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Unicode 10 Launched With 56 New Emojis, Including Bitcoin Symbol
Shubham Verma, 21 June 2017
Unicode 10 Launched With 56 New Emojis, Including Bitcoin Symbol
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Unicode Consortium has finally released Unicode 10 with 56 new emojis
About 8,518 new characters have also been added in the Unicode 10
The new emojis are expected to be released with iOS 11
The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday announced the launch of Unicode 10 that brings a bunch of new emojis, a new Bitcoin sign, and a set of Typicon symbols. With the Unicode 10, 56 new emojis have been released along with a major addition of 8,518 characters bringing the total number of characters to 136,690. Originally unveiled in March this year, the new emoji characters are likely to debut with the iOS 11 slated to roll out later this year.
The new Unicode 10 includes a plethora under the hood updates and improvements such as some new scripts that add support for lesser-used languages, integration of core specification and data files under the same date, and some Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm & UAX modifications, in addition to new emojis. The new 56 new emoji figures include some of the highly demanded emojis like Hijab, Zombie, 'Colbert Emoji', Scarf among others. A new Bitcoin symbol and Typicon characters are the notable ones in the new update. The entire list of 56 new emojis is available on Unicode's own emoji chart and Emojipedia.