A teenager wants to create an emoji to veiled women !!

       A teenager wants to create an emoji to veiled women

                          

A young girl of 15 proposes the creation of emoji to the hijab and the keffiyeh, to provide more diversity in keyboards smartphones.

The emoji can wear a police cap, a turban, a bunny costume or Santa's hat. But they can not wear veil. Rayouf Alhumedhia, a high school student from Saudi Arabia living in Germany, has launched a campaign for the creation of two characters representing a hijab and a keffiyeh, to add to any emoji. If the proposal is accepted, the worldwide smartphone users will soon send characters of men or women wearing a veil.

"The images are crucial for communication"

                                    

The emoji characters are displaying small images that can be included in conversations on a smartphone or online. These icons are the same on all phones. Anyone can send an emoji of a face that pulls the tongue or a ghost, even if they do not look the same as the brand of smartphone or developer of messaging service used. The emoji are managed collectively by the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit organization that manages the character standard in new technologies. They are among its members most Web giants or new technologies offer their services in emoji: Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Huawei, Twitter ... They are responsible for determining the characters available for users worldwide . Each member can propose changes or vote on new additions. It is also possible for an outsider to propose a new emoji to be a vote within the organization.

Rayouf Alhumedhi contacted the Unicode Consortium, as reported by the US site BuzzFeed. "In the digital era, images are a crucial element for communication. The emoji have much impact and are increasingly used, "says the girl in his official proposal, which must soon be sent to the organization. "Approximately 550 million Muslim women in the world wear the veil with pride. And yet, no space is reserved for them on the keyboard. "She said that other online services already offer such options, as Bitmoji application Snapchat property, which adds a veil in her avatar.

The initiative Rayouf Alhumedhi was supported Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit discussion forum, which helped to spread. EmojiRequest the site, which allows users to vote for emoji to propose to the Unicode Consortium, also has him a veiled emoji. It has yet 391 votes, where the most popular proposals can get almost 10,000 votes.

More diversity

                                        

Their growing popularity, emoji have had to embrace diversity to better reflect its users worldwide. These characters are first born in Japan, before spreading to the West through their integration in iOS 5, the mobile operating system from Apple, in 2011. From now adopted by most Web companies and new technologies they are regularly new additions to match the habits of their users worldwide. We can now send a bottle of champagne character, taco, burger or fries.

This diversity also means the representations of men and women. The emoji have long been white or yellow color by default. Since last year, skin color can be adapted to certain characters. Gender equality or LGBT representation are other issues addressed by the Unicode Consortium. Today we can send emoji couples or families with two women or two men. This summer, the Unicode Consortium also voted for 11 new characters representing women in different professions like doctor, scientist or software developer. These have already been adopted in iOS 10 available since Tuesday on the iPhone. These diverse emoji are an easy way for new technology companies to show their commitment to diversity issues, while they suffer themselves to problems of consistency in their employees. But they also respond to high demand of their users, whose life is not just a little yellow .

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