possible to update unicode?

[Mrduder21]

So is it possible to just update the unicode on android phones without waiting forever for samsung to push software updates? the lack of emoji updates on this phone is annoying. seeing tons of boxes with x's is super annoying. so if theres a way to update the unicode on this phone without waiting forever for samsung to update to oreo that would be cool.

 

[Rukbat]

The unicode specification hasn't been "updated" since 1996.

Emojis aren't unicode, they're a way of translating a string of characters into a particular picture - each implementor of an emoji app has his.her own set of emojis, there's no "standard" set. (Even with smileys, which have been around for a decade longer, there's no standard set.)

Install an emoji keyboard for whichever set you prefer. But you're not going to get "all of them" - there are probably millions of them by now, and the pictures alone wouldn't fit into most phones. (And if you're texting with people using iPhones, good luck - there's no Android keyboard that does all iPhone emojis - that would be a copyright violation, and Apple takes those violations seriously. [They even went after Microsoft.])

 

[mary beth hale]

Thanks for a clear explanation. I think people on Android may think there's a way to do "universal" emoji

 

[rsilves]

The unicode specification hasn't been "updated" since 1996.

Emojis aren't unicode, they're a way of translating a string of characters into a particular picture - each implementor of an emoji app has his.her own set of emojis, there's no "standard" set. (Even with smileys, which have been around for a decade longer, there's no standard set.)

Unicode updates its emoji and character list every year, now this list is in version 11 and most of the new emojis that have been published this year will appear in the next updates of the OSs and sometimes before in apps (so you might see the new emojis on Whatsapp before seeing them on the built in keyboard).

R.