If you ’ve ever been to a pride parade or some other celebration of the LGBT community , there ’s a well chance all thebright and beautiful homosexuality , at times , left you at a loss for Word of God – in a good way . But now , it looks like a new rainbow flag emoji is lastly on the way to help you express all that pride .
Unicode Consortium , the radical that oversees all of the colored character reference you apply instead of word , may formally support a newfangled rainbow flag emoji in the near future , according to areportby Mashable . Google software applied scientist Mark Davis , who ’s also the Centennial State - founder and president of Unicode , outlined a stately marriage proposal for the in spades exultant emoji characterin a letteron Tuesday .
A rainbow flag emoji was first proposed to the formation in late June of last year , around the time when the Supreme Court hand down its historic ruling in favour ofmarriage equality for same - sex couples . It ’s among the 30 most - request emoji characters , according to online emoji authority , Emojipedia . On top of that , Davis say recent discourse about the role were meet with solid sustenance among vendors , aka Apple , Google , and other companies that incorporate emoji in their products .
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Interestingly , the method by which Davis suggests the vendor adapt the rainbow flag emoji is based on a fluctuation of theexisting rainbow emoji character . This mean there ’s a little chance the new rainbow flag could get on your devicesbeforethebig peck of more than 70 new emoji charactersthe Unicode Consortium approved for press release this year , likebaconand aglass of whiskey .
" Because existing Unicode characters are used , vender can begin plan and implementation work now and can deploy before the end of 2016 , rather than waiting for Unicode v10.0 to come out in June of 2017 , " Davis say in the letter .
Iflast yr ’s unexampled emoji release via an iOS 9 updateis any denotation , Apple will in all probability sum the Modern bundle of emoji ( and likely the rainbow flag ) to your iPhone via an update to iOS 10 this twilight , although the company has yet to formally let on its plans . And while the rainbow flag emoji will be months late for this year’sLGBT pride celebrations , it could very well make it in clock time forNational Coming Out Dayon October 11th .
At least , we think that ’d be great .
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