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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. Re:Food Allergies by viperidaenz · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's at least two factors that come in to it.

    1) People confuse intolerance for allergy. An allergy is when your immune system attacks food. Intolerance is when your body can't process the food properly.
    2) People sanitise everything these days and don't expose their children to anything dirty. They grow up with poorly developed immune systems.