Why aren’t we able to create our own emojis?

rileyxrose wrote:

Why aren’t we able to create our own emojis😡

Because Emojis are part of an international standard known as Unicode, and Unicode is standardized and used across many devices from many vendors. Nobody else (on Android or Linux or Windows or BSD or many other platforms) would have your particular Emoji, so you could not send your new Emoji anywhere else.

If you want to create your own and don’t mind being limited to sharing among Apple devices but not on other platforms, here is how to create your own Apple Memoji:

… Use Memoji on your iPhone or iPad Pro - Apple Support

If you want to add an Emoji to the international standard for use across ~everything, start here:

… https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

rileyxrose wrote:

What is Unicode?

Pretty much everything you read and write using a computer or a phone or anything else…

…including the text you have written here, and the text you are now reading here…

uses a scheme for encoding the characters for storage, transmission, and display…

…and the scheme used for that is known as Unicode.

Unicode supports the characters needed for English, and for many other languages.

For more detail than many here would probably want: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Hello ~ Because Unicode is responsible for those. See here…

https://home.unicode.org/

~Katana-San~

That’s a question for the Unicode folks who govern emojis.

https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html