Proposal to Add Emoji: Face With One Eyebrow Raised
Update 2020-02-02: In late 2015, I proposed the emoji “Face With One Eyebrow Raised” to the Unicode Consortium for inclusion into the Unicode standard. The emoji was accepted and included into the standard, and Time Magazine published an article about the inclusion process (my five minutes of fame). This page documents the proposal and the media coverage.
Proposal
Documents
Update: On 2015-11-14, the proposal has been added to the Current UTC Document Register of 2015 as L2/15-325. You might want to download the document there.
Images
The “Face With One Eyebrow Raised” Emoji Mockups created by Maximilian Merz:
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Maximilian Merz
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“Face With One Eyebrow Raised” Emoji Mockups.
This work is published from:
Germany.
News
All dates according to Berlin’s timezone.
Proposal
- 2015-10-27: Posted first request for comments on the mailing list.
- 2015-11-05: Posted the proposal draft on the mailing list.
- 2015-11-11: Proposal submitted per email.
- 2015-11-14: Proposal document posted to the Current Document Registry as L2/15-325.
- 2016-01-20: Agenda for UTC #146 meeting published as L2/16-003, the proposal is set on the agenda as point E.1.1.
- 2016-01-26: “Emoji Subcommittee report, Jan 2016” published as L2/16-038. Quote: “[Face With One Eyebrow Raised] strongly recommend (sic) for consideration by UTC (Note: Consider whether this could be handled using customized emoji mechanism).”
- 2016-01-27: “Consolidated proposal for new emoji, Jan 2016” published as L2/16-045.
Proposes the inclusion of Face With One Eyebrow Raised as
U+1F928
. - 2016-01-28: “Future Additions to ISO/IEC 10646 (Jan. 2016)” published as L2/16-049.
The addition of Face With One Eyebrow Raised (as
U+1F928
) and four other new emojis is requested by the Unicode Consortium. Mark Davis tweets about Face With One Eyebrow Raised.
Press Coverage
- 2016-03-25: Press Coverage: Time Magazine: The Inside Story of Why the World Is Being Blessed With a ‘Colbert Emoji’.
- 2016-03-30: Press Coverage: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
- 2016-04-07: Press Coverage: Rise of the Colbert Emoji.
Unicode 10 and Vendor Implementation
- 2017-05-18: Emoji 5.0 specification is finalized.
- 2017-06-20: New Unicode standard is published with Face With One Eyebrow Raised (as
U+1F928
). - 2017-06-16: Facebook includes Face With One Eyebrow Raised.
- 2017-06-30: EmojiOne includes Face With One Eyebrow Raised.
- 2017-07-05: Facebook includes Face With One Eyebrow Raised again, somehow.
- 2017-07-17: On World Emoji Day, Apple reveals some of their images for new emojis. Face With One Eyebrow Raised is not among them.
- 2017-10-02: WhatsApp includes its own emoji font in a beta version. This means that Face With One Eyebrow Raised may arrive on WhatsApp before it arrives on iOS.
- 2017-10-06: Apple previews the new emojis for iOS 11.1. Emojipedia article.
- 2017-12-26: Article in the FAZ about the emoji.
Questions?
Feel free to contact me via the email address given in the proposal document.