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Do We Need More Emojis?
mikejuk writes to note that the Unicode Consortium has accepted 38 new emoji characters as candidates for Unicode 9.0, including characters depicting bacon and a duck."Why could we possibly need a duck? Many of the new characters are the 'other half' of gender-matched pairs, so the Dancer emoji (which is usually rendered as Apple's salsa dancing woman) gets a Man Dancing emoji, who frankly looks like a cross between John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever and your dad at the wedding disco. ... Other additions include carrot, cucumber, and avocado, and bacon. ... The list of additions is rounded off with new animal emojis. Some are the 'missing' zodiac symbols (lion and crab). Others are as baffling as ever – is there *really* a demand for a mallard duck? Sorry: it's in fact a drake!
The Chinese wouldn't add more kanji. They might add more hanzi, though.
You are aware that the Japanese still use several thousand kanji in addition to hiragana and katakana, right?
Oh, and the Chinese do have at least two systems for phonetic representation--zhuyin and pinyin.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Already done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Hopefully one day people will stop making jokes about this sort of thing and just accept that gender isn't binary or simple.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC