Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of text. These are characters which can be built from multiple glyphs, but they also have a pre ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to ...

World Emoji Day is held every year on July 17 because that's the day on the 📅 calendar emoji. This year, the Unicode Consortium-- a non-profit devoted to developing, maintaining and promoting ...

People have made a serious case for the upcoming Apple Core emoji, claiming it’s going to be the new Wilting Rose. The latter ...

Unicode’s approval process considers things like frequency of use, multiple uses or meanings, ability to be used in sequence with other emojis, and whether or not it’s “breaking new ground.” ...

Tech News Unicode’s New Emoji Finalists, Ranked The list of emojis slated for potential release is out. Here's your guide to which candidates deserve to live or die.

As someone who's been spending serious time observing how people use emoji over the past few years, my hunch was no. But I wasn't able to prove it until a new Unicode dataset came out a few weeks ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced on its blog that it will no longer be accepting proposals for new flags into the Unicode standard. That doesn’t mean flags are going away; Unicode is ...

Unicode, a consortium of giants like Apple, Facebook, and Google, oversees standard, “official” emojis. But how they are drawn and when they roll out over the next 12 months are company decisions.

Unicode could, however, just institute an empty wine glass, or glasses containing several different colors of liquids, but that apparently doesn’t seem worth the time or effort of the folks who ...

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday showed off 236 draft candidates for Emoji 12.0, which should make its way onto Apple platforms sometime in 2019 with iOS 13 and macOS 10.15.