Emoji表情将增加5种肤色

Responding to users' complaints about a lack of characters whose skin reflects the variety of people who use smartphones, the group that sets technical standards is adding five more shades to the mix.
​由于用户反映智能手机表情肤色单一，无法反映使用者肤色的多样性，制定编码技术标准的统一码联盟(The Unicode Consortium)计划增加五种有色人种表情。

The Unicode Consortium had previously backed only one skin color, a yellow-orange tone that it considered generic. But it threw away that approach after a wide call for more variety.
统一码联盟过去只支持一种肤色，那就是它认为比较通用的橘黄色。不过在用户广泛呼吁增加肤色多样性之后，该联盟已经决定舍弃旧有的技术方案。

If you're late to the emoji party, they're the characters that use faces and other human-like images to express emotions and ideas. The new plan lets people use emoji that look like them — and they'll also be able to make groups of emoji in which the faces don't all look like one another.
你也许还没有加入到这场emoji表情符号的盛宴，它们是一个个符号，通过模仿人的脸部表情来传递情感与想法。统一码联盟的新计划能够让人们使用与自己更为相像的表情符号。同时，人们可以任意组合出异于他人的表情符号。

The change would take effect next year; here's how the consortium explains it:
此次变化将在2015年实现。对此，统一码联盟做出了以下说明：

"People all over the world want to have emoji that reflect more human diversity, especially for skin tone. The Unicode emoji characters for people and body parts are meant to be generic, yet following the precedents set by the original Japanese carrier images, they are often shown with a light skin tone instead of a more generic (inhuman) appearance, such as a yellow/orange color or a silhouette.
“世界各地的用户们都希望emoji表情符号能体现人类种族的多样性，尤其在肤色这一点上。我们用于表达使用者情感以及肢体动作的统一码emoji表情符号应该要通用。但是依照之前源自于日本手机用户使用的符号模式，它们通常颜色亮丽却不是通用的肤色(与人种肤色差别巨大)，比如说橘黄色或者一个剪影。”

"Unicode Version 8.0 is adding 5 symbol modifier characters that provide for a range of skin tones for human emoji. These characters are based on the six tones of the Fitzpatrick scale, a recognized standard for dermatology (there are many examples of this scale online, such asFitzpatrickSkinType.pdf). The exact shades may vary between implementations."

“统一码8.0标准(Unicode Version 8.0)将增加5个改良符号，这样它们就能为表情添加肤色选择。这些符号颜色是根据六种菲茨帕特里克皮肤分类(Fitzpatrick scale)划分的，它是皮肤学学科中公认的标准。(在网上有很多关于这种分类标准的例子，比如FitzpatrickSkinType.pdf)最终表情的肤色深浅可能会因实际执行方案而发生变化。”