{"id":149,"date":"2023-12-14T00:09:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T00:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/unveiling-ubuntus-latest-update-support-for-118-new-emoji-added\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T07:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T07:13:24","slug":"unveiling-ubuntus-latest-update-support-for-118-new-emoji-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/unveiling-ubuntus-latest-update-support-for-118-new-emoji-added\/","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling Ubuntu&#8217;s Latest Update: Support for 118 New Emoji Added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>A brown mushroom, a slice of lime, and a fiery phoenix \u2014 no, that\u2019s not the start of a rubbish joke but a selection of the 118 new emoji added to the Unicode standard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>And Ubuntu users can see and use these new emoji well before Apple users, as well!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Rolling out to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 23.10 this week is an update to the <em>Noto Color Emoji<\/em> font that\u2019s includes full support for all of the new emoji in Unicode 15.1.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/organte-emoji.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Unicode 15.1 emoji additions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Among them:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brown Mushroom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lime<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phoenix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broken link\/chain<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Head shaking vertically<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Head shaking horizontally<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><p>In addition, the latest release includes <a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over 100 new directional glyphs<\/a> for people running, praying, kneeling, using a wheelchair, and so on (which face left by default, so the new ones face right).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Furthermore, there are <a href=\"#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4 new family emoji<\/a> in silhouette, with existing family group emoji adjusting to follow the new simplified design.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You can see all the changes in this update via your browser on <a href=\"https:\/\/emojipedia.org\/google\/15.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Emojipedia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2>More emoji, but less at the same time<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/149366088.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/new-emoji-in-ubuntu.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><p>The new emoji included in Unicode 15.1 are zero-width joiner (ZWJ) sequences. These allow pairs of pre-existing emoji to combine to create a new one when the invisible ZWJ character (commonly referred to as a zwidge) is placed between them.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>For example, the new <em>Phoenix<\/em> emoji is formed by combining the standard bird \ud83d\udc26 and fire <a href=\"https:\/\/emojipedia.org\/fire?ref=blog.emojipedia.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\ud83d\udd25<\/a> emoji with a ZWJ; to make the runner \ud83c\udfc3 emoji face right you add the right direction \u27a1\ufe0f emoji, again with a ZWJ in-between, and so on.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Manually entering ZWJ sequences is a little tedious as it requires you to know the combination in advance and find the invisible ZWJ character (which most emoji picker tools don\u2019t show).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>So about a week from now a small update to the GNOME <em>Characters<\/em> app will arrive in Ubuntu 23.10. This lets users see the new emoji as individual emoji in the <em>Characters<\/em> app (and when searching via GNOME Shell), the same as with other commonly used ZWG sequences:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Look for an update to the <em>Characters<\/em> apps<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Regrettably, the variant of Characters incorporated in Ubuntu 22.04 <a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/gnome-characters\/+bug\/2045056\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">will not receive an update<\/a>, as it employs a unique approach to exhibit emoji and is incompatible with any emoji from the past few years. Demonstrating them would necessitate a significant GTK update, impacting other versions. <\/p>\n<p>This may be irritating, but at least you will be able to observe the new emoji in other applications (and when was the last time you required a brown mushroom? \ud83e\udd2d).<\/p>\n<p>So, anticipate the arrival of new emojis. Keep an eye out for updates in the upcoming week or so (though if you&#8217;ve enabled the proposed repo, you may already have them installed). Once they are set up, you&#8217;ll witness these emoji in a new way&#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brown mushroom, a slice of lime, and a fiery phoenix \u2014 no, that\u2019s not the start of a rubbish joke but a selection of the 118 new emoji added to the Unicode standard. And Ubuntu users can see and use these new emoji well before Apple users, as well! 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