CUPERTINO, Calif., March 26 (UPI) -- Apple will update its library of emoticons and smileys, called emojis, to fill a diversity gap, which saw no characters depicting African-American users.
In an interview with MTV's Act blog, Katie Cotton, vice president of worldwide corporate communications for Apple, that there was a need for more diversity in the emoji character set and that the company was working with the Unicode Consortium to update the library.