# Add Unicode 9 emoji

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-unicode-9-emoji/56610
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 30, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-unicode-9-emoji/56610 "2017-01-30T19:50:23Z")
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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: [January 30, 2017, 10:16pm 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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