This repository collects (draft) proposals for new emojis and other Unicode characters.

Emoji

A new emoji can be made in three different ways:

* If rather original, it may require the assignment of an individual codepoint, usually in the upper areas of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP), U+1F9*xy*. This usually happens once a year with a new point release of the Unicode Technical Standard (where the next one is version 11.0 in 2018). The deadline for proposals is currently set to the end of June.

* An existing character can be repurposed by adding the `Emoji` property once and using Variation Selector 16 ‘VS-16’ U+FE0F henceafter.

* There are several types of canonic character sequences which can be registered. The most import type are multiple emojis forced to form a ligature by a Zero-Width Joiner ‘ZWJ’ U+200D between components. Country flags use pairs of Regional Indicator Symbols and are added automatically if ISO 3166-1 changes, whereas their subdivisions are encoded with Tag Characters on a Waving Black Flag base using ISO 3166-2 codes.

The collection also contains templates, related sources, references and other material related to the Unicode standard.