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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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alt="emoji" align="left" height="75" width="110">A
few weeks ago, we considered doing a <em>4cast</em>
about emoji. Emoji are <a
href="http://readwrite.com/2012/06/07/emoji-and-the-iphone-fueled-rise-of-talking-in-tiny-pictures">not
really new</a>, however - we're just hearing
more about them lately - and frankly, some of you
guys out there probably know more about them than
we do. But last week, the Unicode Consortium,
which is working on <a
href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/">guidelines</a>
for making emoji characters that can be used
across a wide variety of platforms, released a new
draft of those guidelines that included a section
on diversity. Now emoji are becoming a richer
"language" that might be used for some serious
communication.
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<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://readwrite.com/2014/11/05/unicode-emoji-ethnicity-problem">Unicode
wants to fix emoji's ethnicity problem</a>
(ReadWrite | Lauren Orsini) "The Unicode
Consortium notes that emoji were originally
intended to have a 'a more generic (inhuman)
appearance, such as a yellow/orange color or a
silhouette,' but Japanese carriers soon set a
light skinned precedent, intending the emoji to
look like the Japanese people who first used
them. Since emoji use has long since spread from
Japan to the rest of the world, emoji diversity
is overdue."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/04/proposed-changes-to-emoji-standard-would-allow-for-more-diversity-increased-selection-of-skin-tones/">Proposed
changes to emoji standard would allow for more
diversity, increased selection of skin tones</a>
(TechCrunch | Sarah Perez) "They weren't encoded
into the Unicode Standard until 2010, but having
originally grown out of a smaller geographic
region, the 'generic' images being used didn't
accurately reflect the diversity found elsewhere
in the world. Over time, things have progressed
... slowly. Apple <a
href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/14/emoji-ios-6/">updated
its emoji collection in 2012</a> to include a
lesbian and homosexual couple, for example. But
even then, people wanted to know, where were the
black emoji?"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/11/unicode-finally-discovers-how-to-let-emoji-black-man-and-white-woman-hold-hands/">Unicode
proposes a way to let an emoji black man and
white woman hold hands</a> (Ars Technica |
Casey Johnston) "To introduce diversity, the
developers propose introducing five color swatch
emojis of skin tones that, when combined with an
existing person emoji, would render as a single
'emoji presentation' with the skin color in
question. So for instance, a font could take a
boy face plus brown swatch and render a boy with
a brown skin tone and darker hair."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Diversity">Proposed
draft Unicode technical report #51: Diversity</a>
(Unicode Consortium | Mark Davis and Peter
Edberg, eds.) "There are several emoji for
multi-person groups, such as COUPLE WITH HEART.
The emoji modifiers affect all the people in
such characters. However, real multi-person
groupings include many in which various members
have different skin tones. For representing such
groupings, users can employ techniques already
found in current emoji practice, in which a
sequence of emoji is intended to be read
together as a unit, with each emoji in the
sequence contributing some piece of information
about the unit as a whole."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Articles
from <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org">Ohio
Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=7dc66c07-6424-4d48-8f9b-2e7a8a3ac026%40sessionmgr115&vid=0&hid=115&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=buh&AN=96966521">A
return to hieroglyphics.</a> (<em>Fortune</em>,
7/21/2014, p148 | Erin Griffith)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/pov/detail/detail?sid=8bbaf050-85f1-44f5-aa21-67a2dc2cb042%40sessionmgr112&vid=0&hid=115&bdata=JnNpdGU9cG92LWxpdmU%3d#db=pwh&AN=6XN2014063015">Why
140 characters, when one will do? Tracing
the emoji evolution.</a> (NPR's <em>All
Things Considered</em>, 6/30/2014 |
transcript)</li>
<li><a
href="http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy.oplin.org/lrc/detail/detail?sid=4cd1aa9b-b61b-4e6a-ba5b-e4706358d09c%40sessionmgr115&vid=0&hid=115&bdata=JnNpdGU9bHJjLWxpdmU%3d#db=lfh&AN=88018394">Poker
face.</a> (<em>New Yorker</em>, 5/20/2013,
p92-99 | Jonathan Nolan)</li>
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