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Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-you-know-what-this-means? dept.

AmiMoJo writes: A proposal (PDF) submitted by a Google engineer to the Unicode Consortium asks that food allergies get their own emojis and be added to the standard. The proposal suggests the addition of peanuts, soybeans, buckwheat, sesame seeds, kiwi fruit, celery, lupin beans, mustard, tree nuts, eggs, milk products and gluten. According to TNW: "This proposal will take a little longer to become reality — it's still in very early stages and needs to be reviewed by the Unicode Consortium before it can move forward, but it'll be a great way for those with allergies to quickly express them."

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  1. There was a point where Unicode needed to stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    And they have clearly passed it.
    But let’s keep going and see what happens.

    1. Re:There was a point where Unicode needed to stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Do they have a codepoint for "jumping over a shark" yet?

  2. Systemd allergy symbol? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    If there's one thing that I've come to learn that I'm very allergic to, it's systemd. I do hope that as part of this work, they add a symbol that could be used to help warn those of us with systemd allergies that systemd may be present. Like this warning symbol could be shown on the Debian website, or at the very beginning of an installation of Debian 8 (or later). At least if we're alerted to the presence of systemd, we can take steps to protect ourselves, like by installing OpenBSD instead of Debian.

  3. Emoji allergy symbol by reboot246 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm allergic to emojis. I hate them with a passion I usually reserve for bad drivers.

  4. How about one for IBS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Me, bent over, clutching my abdomen, while Al Gore tries to stop the greenhouse gases from my butt?