After one, the Unicode Consortium has. In total, the update adds 838 characters to the file. Of those 838 characters, 37 represent new emojis that will be addressed to your devices before the end of the year and throughout 2022. The selection includes all the emojis the Unicode consortium included in July. That means characters like “beans,” “troll,” “mirror ball” and “melting face” made the cut.
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It should be noted that the finalized list also includes several skin tone variations of the hand application emoji. Because of this, he was one of the few characters in previous versions that could not be modified to represent different skin tones. The Unicode Consortium and its volunteers spent most of two years working to fix it, and now they have.
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