Scotland flag emoji has been confirmed for release for smartphones by emoji bosses

YES TO THE EMOJI

President of Unicode Mark Davis announced that the Saltire will be available for smartphone use later this year

SCOTLAND's smartphone users can rejoice as the Scotland flag emoji has been confirmed for release by emoji bosses.

Mark Davis, the president of Unicode, took to social media to announce that the flag will be available on smartphones later this year.

Emoji bosses have confirmed the release of the Saltire emoji later this year

The blue and white flag will be added to the Unicode system alongside the English and Welsh flag.

It comes after the company had announced the proposed update to include the flags last month.

Mark Davis said: "We just agreed to add three UK flags to Unicode."

The founder also shared pictures of what the much anticipated emojis would look like when they are eventually released.

The tweet has already been shared over 150 times by emoji fans.

The UK flag is already available on smartphones, but the Saltire has remained mysteriously absent from smartphone keyboards. Until now.

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Jeremy Burge, chief emoji officer at Emojipedia, and Owen Williams, who works for BBC Wales, had petitioned for the three British flags to be added to the Unicode systems last year, after former First Minister Alex Salmond had backed the introduction of them.

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Mr Burge also confirmed the release of the flags on his blog as the Scotland flag is confirmed to have the highest demand from social media and smartphone users.

He said: "Previously, flags of the UK home nations haven't been eligible for emoji status as the relevant ISO standard lists the United Kingdom as one single entity.

"Now that subdivisions are supported, thousands of new flags are technically possible - with these being the first three approved."

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