{"id":337005,"date":"2017-07-17T06:33:05","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T06:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=337005"},"modified":"2017-07-17T06:33:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T06:33:05","slug":"emojis-honoured-in-world-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/emojis-honoured-in-world-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Emojis honoured in world celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
New York’s Empire State Building will be lit up in yellow to mark a day that organisers hope will put a smile on millions of faces.<\/p>\n
It is one of several stunts planned for World Emoji Day, which celebrates the colourful symbols used in instant messages, on 17 July.<\/p>\n
London’s Royal Opera House will present 20 well-known operas and ballets in emoji form online.<\/p>\n
There are 2,666 emojis currently on the official Unicode Standard list.<\/p>\n
The Unicode consortium lays out the framework for emojis and decides what should be depicted, but companies such as Apple and Google are free to create their own designs.<\/p>\n