Earlier this year Unicode.org, the group that develops and promotes the Unicode Standard, released a number of emoji, including a Hindu temple and sari. Now, Google has introduced those emoji into the just-released Android 10 update.
All told, there are 65 new emoji in Android 10, but the ones you might be most interested are those for a temple, sari, autorickshaw, and diya.
All of these are specifically because Indian users have been requesting them of course. And it seems social media users were really happy about being included.
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Additionally, some of the new emoji were also aimed at those living with disabilities. These include motorized and manual wheelchairs, probing canes, sign language, and seeing-eye dogs.
Google also went ahead and added gender options for emojis representing professions, or at least ones without a specified gender it says. They also added female versions to other action emoji like "getting a haircut", and skin tone variations to a number of other icons.?