# 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:** ![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:** [April 30, 2017, 11:53pm 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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