# What authority assigns the "short" names of the Emoji?

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**Created:** [2015 年6 月 4 日 23:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-authority-assigns-the-short-names-of-the-emoji/29665 "2015-06-04T23:49:34Z")\
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Discourse uses things like :``fries: to include images like 🍟 (in place of, say 1F35F FRENCH FRIES 🍟). I gather the :name: string is called a “short code”, but what authority assigns those names? I don’t find it in any of the Unicode data dumps ( [Index of /Public/UNIDATA](http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) )

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