Tuesday, May 26, 2015

The selfie and Pinocchio’s nose, between the new emoticons – Clarín.com

The Unicode Consortium (Unicode Consortium), the organization that controls the standards for character encoding accepted by the largest technology companies in the world, announced 38 new emoticons candidates to be launched in mid-2016 .

Los emoticons are temporary candidates and some of them might “be removed from the list of candidates, while others could be added,” said the consortium. Among those proposed are sefie and nose of a liar .

The proposed symbols they became candidates for a variety of reasons . In some cases, they were included to standardize symbols that are already used. That is the case in the face with the cowboy hat, already offered in the Yahoo! Messenger.

Others were chosen because ask them greatly in different spaces online .

The Unicode Consortium noted that many other potential characters are still being evaluated and could be approved in the future. While explained that the current versions of the symbol candidates, in white and black , are provisional and may be colored or be modified.

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