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 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.
Kit Bashir
Dave Anderson