{"id":22399,"date":"2015-07-04T14:15:06","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/the-lgbti-rainbow-flag-could-become-an-emoji-soon\/"},"modified":"2015-07-04T14:15:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T18:15:06","slug":"the-lgbti-rainbow-flag-could-become-an-emoji-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/the-lgbti-rainbow-flag-could-become-an-emoji-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"The LGBTI rainbow flag could become an emoji soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LGBTI rainbow flag could become an emoji soon<\/b><\/p>\n

The Unicode Consortium<\/a> is discussing adding a new flag to its multi-national assortment – but it’d belong to a community, not a nation.<\/p>\n

The Consortium is a not-for-profit which develops digital languages around the world.<\/p>\n

They started debating in June adding an LGBTI Rainbow flag to the emoji language, after the amendment in America which allows samesex couples<\/a> to marry.<\/p>\n

Ken Whistler, technical director at Unicode, said: ‘The claim that Twitter is including a rainbow flag would be taken into consideration by the Emoji Subcommittee [and is] a strong factor in favor of additions.’<\/p>\n

But a debate surrounds the possible addition. A co-author at Unicode said the flag could create a ‘slippery slope’.<\/p>\n

Mark Davis, co-author of Unicode Standard, said: ‘Because it would not be part of any sort of structured extension to the geopolitical-entity encoding mechanism […] it would provide no orderly path to encoding additional, similar flags for other social groups or causes.’<\/p>\n

The Consortium are debating adding Welsh, English and Irish flags, too.<\/p>\n

You can let Unicode know you want the rainbow flag emoji by emailing them here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post The LGBTI rainbow flag could become an emoji soon<\/a> appeared first on Gay Star News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jack Flanagan<\/p>\n

www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/the-lgbti-rainbow-flag-could-be-an-emoji\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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