# Add Unicode 9 emoji

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-unicode-9-emoji/56610
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2017年一月30日 19:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-unicode-9-emoji/56610 "2017-01-30T19:50:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![dfabulich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dfabulich/32/108716_2.png) [@dfabulich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfabulich)
#### Post date: [2017年一月30日 19:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-unicode-9-emoji/56610/1 "2017-01-30T19:50:24Z")

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Unicode 9 added a `:shrug:` emoji which I’d love to use right about now. [http://emojipedia.org/shrug/](http://emojipedia.org/shrug/) indicates that it’s available in all five of the standard sets available from Discourse (Apple, Google, Twitter, Emojione, Microsoft/Win10).

I’d love to see Discourse adopt all of the new stuff in Unicode 9.

For now, I’ll just have to copy and paste that katakana thing. ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯

P.S. Note that you can’t paste in ` ¯\_(ツ)_/¯` directly except in code blocks; you have to escape the backslash with ` ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯`

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### Author: ![elijah](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elijah/32/104055_2.png) [@elijah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elijah)
#### Post date: [2017年一月30日 22:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-unicode-9-emoji/56610/2 "2017-01-30T22:16:36Z")

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Discourse 1.8 is supposed to include newer Unicode stuff, see #releases

> Skin tone support for emoji

The current emoji set is the Unicode v3 release. Shrug is v4. I expect v4 will be part of the work done in Discourse 1.8, but I’m just an observer here.

Some previous discussion that might be interesting:

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/gay-flag-emoji-not-showing-up/50643/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gay-flag-emoji-not-showing-up/50643/)

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2017年四月30日 23:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-unicode-9-emoji/56610/3 "2017-04-30T23:53:28Z")

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We do plan to upgrade emoji, personally I find having skin tone support to be something super important.

I do not think it will make the upcoming release but very likely the next one.

Twitter has a pretty excellent emoji selector with skin tone support we should totally emulate.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/3/b3613a7e0d05b9ff52fba62bb07c1bbf80258a76.png)

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [2022年一月27日 14:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-unicode-9-emoji/56610/4 "2022-01-27T14:34:27Z")

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