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emoji_aliases.txt removal
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In the previous version, Google used the "family: man, woman, boy" emoji to represent the generic "family" emoji. In this version, Google created a unique emoji to represent the "family" emoji. The justification is that all 3 people in the new emoji are now represented as gender-neutral.
Emoji #408 is the family emoji. Emoji #409 is "family: man, woman, boy".
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Or compare https:/
If you click Google, you can see the historical versions. This update is Android 9.0; the version currently in 18.04 LTS is Android 8.0.
The same thing happened with the "couple with heart" emoji, #404 and #405 where the 2 adults now are gender-neutral.
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So yes, this is a behavior change, but it is expected that there are some changes to existing emoji. For a more dramatic example, see LP: #1766736 (the pistol emoji change which landed in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS just before release).
Not to mention the dramatic style change in Android 7.0. See https:/
Small glyphs
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The small glyphs change was made in this commit:
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The commit message says that "android has legacy tooling that expects small metrics" but they'll eventually switch to using big metrics. But on closer reading, it does look like this used to build big metrics before this change, so let me ask for clarification.