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New emojis just dropped.

(Emoji? Emojis? Plurals, how do they work.) The Unicode Consortium just released the latest version of its standard, with 164 new emojis and “several thousand additional non-emoji characters.” As we saw in the preview in July, there’s a lot of good stuff in here. But now comes the fun part: seeing how different platforms interpret, and occasionally totally ruin, the new characters. They better not screw up Fight Cloud.

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