The problem with a ‘Doctor Emoji’ is that new characters need to be approved by the ISO (International Standards Organization), in a long process, which means that any new characters will not be available (officially) until Unicode 10 in June of next year.
Vendors have decided they want these gendered Emoji ASAP (see the latest news). The work-around is to treat **sequences** of existing characters as a new Emoji, like some sort of very weird ligature.
Unicode is scrambling to catch up to what Vendors have suddenly decided they want (although in my opinion, this could have been predicted last year).
David
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On Fri, 8/12/16, zelpa <zelpahd_at_gmail.com> wrote:
Subject: ZWJ sequences in UTR #51 v4
To: unicode_at_unicode.org
Received: Friday, August 12, 2016, 3:44 AM
Some of the ZWJ
sequences in the latest revision seem sort of arbitrary, why
is male health worker Man + Staff of Asclepius instead of
introducing a Doctor emoji and simply using the female of
male modifiers? The current proposition also doesn't
seem to allow for a gender-neutral doctor(?)
Received on Fri Aug 12 2016 - 11:55:08 CDT
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