Ginger emoji are in the works, according to a report by Emojipedia. The Unicode Committee will be meeting next week at the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA to discuss how to implement emoji with red hair in upcoming Unicode standards.

A proposal suggests several methods for adding a red-headed option. One would be to offer a man or woman emoji with red hair, for which users can pick the skin tone. Another would be to add red hair and white skin as a modifier option for current emoji that can be customized.

The simplest option proposed would be to adapt the person with blond hair emoji to give it a more strawberry blond shade.

Emojipedia notes that with less than 2 percent of the population having red hair,…

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