While a large part of the world population must learn to live daily with the wearing of a mask to avoid the spread of Covid-19, there is today no symbol to represent a masked individual in this context of crisis. sanitary. There is indeed an emoji wearing a surgical mask, but it symbolizes more of a sick person and not a masked individual to protect themselves against the coronavirus.
To remedy this, an Irish advertising agency submitted a proposal for a “smiling masked face” emoji to the US organization responsible for approving and standardizing these characters, the Unicode Consortium. “We submitted a proposal to @unicode with a request for a 'smiley masked emoji' to be added to keyboards around the world. Face masks help us protect ourselves and those around us. They are a symbol of health, well-being and safety, ”tweeted the Dublin branch of advertising agency TBWA.
We've submitted a proposal to @unicode, the world standard for text and emoji, for a 'Smiling Face Mask Emoji' to be added to emoji keyboards around the globe.
Face masks help us to protect ourselves and those around us. They're a symbol of health, well-being and safety. pic.twitter.com/x3yfI4aFaQ
But even if it was validated by the Unicode Consoritum, this emoji would not see the light of day this year. Indeed, the list of new characters is presented in March for a release during the year, and because of the coronavirus crisis, no new emoji will appear in 2021. This change of calendar therefore pushes the release of the emojis which will be validated next year.
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