The Unicode reserved a place for facepalm

The Unicode consortium reserved a place under the sign of Facepalm, which is used to express a sense of shame for another person. The sign will look like this:

In 2011, when Unicode began to support Emoji, an employee of the Medusa cards (and then Lentapedia) Denis Dmitriev jokingly suggested adding this sign to the standard. Then the matter did not go beyond the discussion.

The Unicode 9.0 version with Facepalm will be released in mid -2016. Not only facepalm and other signs will be added there. For example, owl:

In June 2015, Unicode 8 will be released. There will be no Facepalm.

• Yunikod appeared in 1991. The standard consists of two components: a universal set of characters (for more than one million elements) and the coding system of these characters. New characters are constantly added to the standard - in 2011, emoticons and alchemical signs were included in it. New symbols can offer everything - as people from the structure of Unicode, people from the outside. For example, alchemical signs appeared thanks to medical scientists.