A simple hack may bring the rainbow flag emoji to your devices before the end of 2016

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by Sindy Cator on July 20, 2016 at 12:26 am

This weekend in San Diego was Pride weekend, an amazing celebration of love and acceptance geared mostly toward the LGBT crowd, but — in my experience — accepting of anyone who wants to come have a good time. The rainbow flag emoji would have been a nice addition, and I actually went searching for one at one point only to come up completely blank. This morning, Mike Davis, a Google employee and President of the Unicode Consortium — the organization that handles existing emoji as well as the release of new ones — and suggested a simple hack that could allow the…