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Like everything else, the Unicode Consortium has had a wrench thrown into its regimented schedule bythe novel coronavirus.
Unicode, which oversees text-encoding standards across technology manufacturers, is largely volunteer-run.
Once that is settled, tech companies can then incorporate it into their operating systems.
That is unlikely to happen in the last three months of the year.
Hence, were not likely to get any new emoji until 2022.
The exception to this concerns emoji sequences.
To get a little technical, some quote-unquote new emojis are not actually new.
These are easier to put into new software releases because they rely on existing characters already approved by Unicode.
