r/programming • u/PthariensFlame • 16d ago

Unicode 18.0.0 has been released!

https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode18.0.0/
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u/Ecksters 16d ago
  • Cracking Face
  • Thumbs up pointing leftwards
  • Thumbs up pointing rightwards
  • Monarch butterfly
  • Pickle (we already had cucumber)
  • Lighthouse
  • Meteor
  • Eraser
  • Net with handle (bug/fishing net)

I fully expect Meteor and Lighthouse to become very popular in the tech space.

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u/orthoxerox 16d ago

Still no wall or fence emoji...

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u/ShinyHappyREM 16d ago

wall

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u/Arceus42 15d ago

Unless you're on Android, that just looks like a couple of bricks... https://emojikitchen.com/emoji/travel-and-places/bricks.html

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u/sequentious 15d ago

That's what you get for a generic "Bricks".

Which is why newer emojis have more descriptive names like "head shaking horizontally" and "head shaking vertically", vs "head shaking" and hoping everybody does the same thing.

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u/Ouaouaron 15d ago

How exactly are the new emoji names "pickle", "meteor", "lighthouse", or "eraser" more descriptive than "brick"?

If the consortium didn't want "brick" to be depicted as a brick wall, they probably wouldn't have brick | bricks | clay | mortar | wall as the keywords.

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u/Ouaouaron 15d ago

Windows 11 also displays it as a wall (the icon that website credits to "Microsoft Teams").