Amsterdam requires rainbow flag emoji – De Stentor

The Amsterdam Maurice Beljaars submitted an application for a rainbow flag emoji. Beljaars made the request after a friend of his had had to deal with anti-gay violence and he wanted about tweeting, he says in Het Parool. ,, There emoji for a head massage and a fried egg. But a rainbow flag, the symbol of LGBT community since the seventies, is still out of the question. ”

It was not the first time he rainbow flag on his phone was missing, but now he decided to make it work. So Beljaars filed a suit last weekend in paperwork at the Unicode Consortium. ,, The request was a chore. The proposal must meet all kinds of rules and you will be asked in little detail to describe how the icon should look like. ”

Waving flag
already exists or a rainbow-emoji, but Beljaars does not sufficiently so. ,, This is an emoji that comes in handy when appje if you’ve actually seen a rainbow: when on gay emancipation arrive we need a waving flag ”

For now, it still remains the same. wait, because the Unicode Consortium now has two years to decide on his request. If there is a great demand for a certain emoji that can possibly faster.