In 2018 you will be able to turn emoji

Unicode Consortium - a non-profit organization that created the Unicode character encoding standard, - prepared changes for emoji: in   next year   users will be able to rotate images and use new "emoticons".

180 °

AT   updating the standard provides for the possibility to change the direction of emoji, then   there is a mirror image of them. AT   First of all, this concerns asymmetrical images   - for example, runners, transport (example in the illustration) , etc.

In the "Unicode Consortium " note that it was this function that became one of the   the most frequent requests of users.

More Emoji

Also Unicode wants to add new emoji. The collection will be replenished with a swan, a mango, a face in   festive hood and   tune in   mouth, teddy bear, cake, coil with   thread, skateboard and   red-haired people.

When to expect

The final decision on   The   January 2018. That is, we do not have to use the new emoji   before the second half of the year.

Source: Mashable