New emoji in 2019 could feature more diversity, including couple variations

Each year, a swathe of new emoji are released into the world, and next year's batch features more diversity than ever.

The Unicode Consortium, the organisation in charge of selecting what emoji gets to sit on your phone's keyboard, has released its draft candidates for 2019.

There's a shift toward diversity among these emoji hopefuls, with potentials including a person who is deaf, an ear with a hearing aid, a sari, a service dog, a motorised and manual wheelchair, and a Hindu temple. 

Also proposed were 55 combinations of gender and skin colour for couples holding hands. This will be achieved with a new emoji called "standing person," and putting these two together will mean they will merge. Read more...