Unicode Emoji 11.0 characters now ready for adoption!

[Mark Davis ☕️ via Unicode]

Also, please click through from the announcement to
http://www.unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html.

If it isn't apparent from that page what the relationship is, we have some
work to do...

Mark

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Martin J. Dürst via Unicode <
unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> On 2018/02/28 19:38, Janusz S. Bień via Unicode wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 27 2018 at 13:45 -0800, announcements at unicode.org writes:
>>
>> The 157 new Emoji are now available for adoption, to help the Unicode
>>> Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages.
>>>
>>
>> I'm quite curious what it the relation between the new emojis and the
>> digitally disadvantages languages. I see none.
>>
>
> I think this was mentioned before on this list, in particular by Mark:
> The money collected from character adoptions (where emoji are a prominent
> target) is (mostly?) used to support work on not-yet-encoded (thus
> digitally disadvantaged) scripts. See e.g. the recent announcement at
> http://blog.unicode.org/2018/02/adopt-character-grant-to-sup
> port-three.html.
>
> Regards,   Martin.
>
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