Unicode’s emoji set has been adopted by major companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, as well as major programming languages like Java and XML among others.

New emoji are the most relevant addition of any Unicode update for most people, but as usual, Unicode 14 adds support for a wide range of languages, characters, and scripts, including "support for ...

Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for. Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The ...

With September upon us, just like clockwork, the Consortium has given the green light for Unicode 15.0, complete with 31 new emoji — and if that weren't enough, it's also being joined by Google ...

The Unicode Consortium has approved of 69 new emoji. Emoji 5.0 — which is slated to release in June 2017 — includes new smileys, foods, drinks, flags and people.