Jeremy Burge

Jeremy Burge

Jeremy Burge is the founder of Emojipedia. He represented Emojipedia at Unicode Technical Committee meetings and is a former vice chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee.

iOS 9.1 includes new emojis

iOS 9.1 includes new emojis

Update October 21 2015: iOS 9.1 has now been released. View the changelog for all the details [https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-9-1-emoji-changelog/]. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- iOS 9.1, released yesterday [http://thenextweb.com/apple/2015/09/09/ios-9-1-finally-brings-new-emoji-including-cheese-burrito-and-more/] as a developer preview, includes a bunch of new emojis, primarily from Unicode

The Trouble With Redheads

The results are in: diverse emoji support [https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-2015-emoji-changelog-ios-os-x] is either inclusive [http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/10/opinions/obeidallah-emoji-diversity/], divisive [http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/10/how-apples-new-multicultural-emojis-are-more-racist-than-before/] , overdue [http://www.yumasun.com/opinion/diverse-options-are-important-even-in-texting/article_2d7445e0-c05f-11e4-ae24-57ddc41008b8.html] , or not even necessary

Hot Dog, Cheese, Taco, Hockey and More in Unicode 8.0 Emoji Additions

The Unicode Consortium has today announced the emoji candidates [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-8/] for inclusion in Unicode 8.0 [http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode8.0.0/], due in mid-2015. Popularly requested [https://www.change.org/p/shigetaka-kurita-and-president-of-the-united-states-i-humbly-request-that-you-add-a-hotdog-symbol-to-the-emoji-set-and-furthermore-ketchup-shall-not-be-used-in-the-making-of-this-hot-dog-emoji] emoji accepted as candidates include the Hot Dog Emoji [http://e