It’s been a long, hard battle for redheads the world over. Now, after years of campaigning, ginger people could finally be getting their own emoji. Silicon Valley bosses are set to discuss introducing a ginger emoji into iPhone globally next week. ‘The lack of a redhead emoji has been the most frequent complaint from Emojipedia users in the past three months,’ said Jeremy Burge, founder of Emojipedia on his blow. ‘This document aims to move the discussion forward on how this can be addressed,’ he added. Last month, Apple unveiled its iOS 10.2 software update which included 72 new emojis such as a firefighter, welder, astronaut and rockstar. But redheads were notably absent prompting a global outcry. An online petition in Scotland demanding ginger emoji currently has 20,000 signatures. The main issue is there is one, overarching organisation, known as Unicode Consortium, who controls emoji on iPhone. In 2015, Ginger emoji were unveiled on the Google Play Store for Android. But up until now, the Unicode Consortium has been reluctant to give into ginger campaigners. That, however, is set to change. Apple says it be hosting a Unicode Technical Committee meeting in San Francisco to discuss the plans to add a carrot-top character to its emoji line-up. The firm already has six different skin tones, and over a several hair styles for its characters. It’s not yet clear exactly how the emojis will be implemented. Burge has outlined in a proposal for Unicode with several options. One would be adding a ‘person with red hair’ emoji, or Apple could add a ‘hair colour tag option’. This would allow redheads to feature on any emoji and skin colour.