COVID-19 Pandemic continuously affecting the entire world and on the latest, it hits the Emoji World.
Yes, you read it right, it seems surprising to tell you how coronavirus is affecting the emojis?
But due to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the release of new emojis has been affected and there are no new emojis releasing.
A non-profit organization that supervises emoji standards and releases standardized sets of emoji, The UNICODE CONSORTIUM, for Android and iPhone has reported that it has finalized to postpone the version14.0 of Unicode Standard release by six months from March to September 2021 due to COVID-19.
This delay in the 14th version release has also impacted the related specifications and data like new emoji characters.
On a Normal Time, In the month of March new add on of the emoji collection is announced, which is then in the month of September added to mobile devices.
But in this Pandemic Situation, with this delay of Six months, the new emoji characters would only appear on phones and other devices in 2022.
The collective efforts of Volunteers determined the Unicode Consortium and in this situation, Mark Davis, President of the Consortium said in a blog post that, "Under the current circumstances, we’ve heard that our contributors have a lot on their plates at the moment and decided it was in the best interests of our volunteers and the organizations that depend on the standard to push out our release date. This year we simply can’t commit to the same schedule we’ve adhered to in the past,”
To Remember, this postpone does not impact the release of the 13th Version of emojis standards and will be released in smartphones by the end of 2020 as its previous versions released on time.
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