This is how the paella Emoji emoticon should be
Because it is not the same pan with food as paella, not even a mixed paella than a traditional paella, the defenders of the emoticon of this popular and traditional dish of Valencian gastronomy are fighting tooth and nail to get therepresentation that this food deserves. And it is that in Emojipedia, a reference web page of Emoji-style emoticons that can be used in applications like WhatsApp, they have confused the appearance of this dish, adding ingredients that the Valencians would not admit in the original paella.Something that could harm the opinion of Unicode, the consortium of companies that finally approves which emoticons reach applications and social networks.
The campaign PaellaEmoji continues its course at the hands of a well-known Valencian rice brand and the comedian Eugeni Alemany for a definitive week for the history of this possible emoticon. The businesses and companies that make up Unicode have met this week in San Francisco to deliberate about the 74 Emoji emoticons that could become part of the collection that is already present in world-famous apps, such as WhatsApp, Twitter or Hangouts, to name a few. In this list of emoticons is that of the paella, although some reference pages have wrong the ingredients of the traditional paella
Thus, an image of a mixed paella, with shellfish, peas and other ingredients, has set off all the alarm bells among the organization of the movement PaellaEmoji This image has been published by the website Emojipedia, which is in charge of to collect proposals and drawings Emoji, although it is not part of the consortium of Unicode that approves finally the emoticons that will become part of the final collection. Of course, having your support can help the final resolution of Unicode
After a clarification through the social network Twitter, Emojipedia has corrected the image, eliminating the ingredients that do not belong to the traditional Valencian dish. A necessary support since Unicode collects the activity in social networks and the use of candidates before giving the go-ahead.In this way, the original design of the campaign PaellaEmoji, accepted by the creator of these emoticons, would be established before the deliberations, with the hope thatUnicode Don't make mistakes and approve how it looks as originally created. Something that will satisfy more than one Valencian, and that will help to fix the original concept of traditional paella in the imagination of the users of WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and other applications of messaging where emoticons are very present.
Unicode had a hard time digesting the emoticon Emoji of the paella. And it is that, at first, it was listed as pan with ingredients Far from remaining immobile, the campaign team that has managed to make Unicode Take into account the candidacy of PaellaEmoji, he has been present on social networks as Twitter managing, at different times, to become a topic of the moment or Trending Topic worldwideWith his efforts, paella is increasingly recognized and recognizable, and one of the strong candidates to pass the Unicode exam so that, starting in the summer, This emoticon is available in messaging applications and social networks so that everyone can express with images what words cannot. Of course, an image that faithfully portrays the traditional dish.
