The Unicode Consortium announces release 17.2.0 of the Unicode standard.
A. Summary
41 new Emoji characters have been added, most notably:
◦ The smell of rain
◦ The feeling of being asked to remove your headphones on public transport by a stranger hitting on you (U+F0AD)
◦ The sound of standing on your spectacles while trying to locate them in the dark
◦ The moment at 5am when a cat is delightfully making biscuits on your abdomen but you need to get up to pee
@Unixbigot lol
USB: keep going, guys!
Unicode: FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY STOP JUST STOP NO REALLY THIS TIME I'M SERIOUS YOU REALLY NEED TO STOP SIT DOWN SHUTUP AND THINK HARD ABOUT YOUR LIFE CHOICES TO DATE
@Unixbigot It's been tastefully done however, and required no allocation of new code points. It's all existing ones fused with Zero Width Joiners
(1): U+1f443 (NOSE), U+26c6 (RAIN)
(2): U+1fa37 (HEADPHONE), U+1f68c (BUS), U+1f346 (AUBERGINE)
(3): U+1f453 (EYEGLASSES), U+U+1f68c (FOOT), U+4de3 (HEXAGRAM FOR DARKENING OF THE LIGHT)
(4): U+1f63b (SMILING CAT FACE WITH HEART-SHAPED EYES), U+1f36a (COOKIE), U+1f755 (ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR URINE), U+0035 (DIGIT FIVE), U+33c2 (SQUARE AM)
@Unixbigot Weird discovery through this is that Big Biscuit needs to get their shit together, there is no code point allocated for biscuits specifically. U+1f36a (COOKIE) is canonically biscuits though because they were included in the original submission for this code point.
HEXAGRAM FOR DARKENING OF THE LIGHT and ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR URINE though... I got nothing.
@Unixbigot Can you tell I've just returned from a week-long rabbithole into the subject of "when you say 'sort the strings', what _precisely_ do you mean?"
Sadly :lolsob: has not been consecrated as an emojum yet, so I am unable to concisely convey my feelings about what I learned.
just driving by to say thank you for "emojum", a delightfully infuriating neologism
Not to mention JUNIOR DEITY and COMBINING PERSONAL TRANSPORT, for those frustrating moments when you just want to shout "Christ on a Bike!"
@dshan @Unixbigot Dropbears should be added to Unicode and composed as
🩸 U+1FA78 DROP OF BLOOD
U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER (ZWJ)
🐨 U+1F428 KOALA
We also need to inform the Unicode Consortium of the importance of Bunyips for proper internationalization and cross cultural communication.
◦ The jerk you feel when a piece of clothing you are wearing catches on something
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