Moreover, Unicode can't remove a character once added — while it can update emoji, it's hesitant to add a flag that might not last long. Usage was also a major concern.

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 ...

Many of the Unicode 9.0 emoji are coming to iOS with iOS 10.2. It’s unclear when exactly we’ll see Unicode 10 come to iOS, but it likely won’t be for a few months at least.

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 ...

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.

We've seen a few people share on social media that the Unicode 16.0 release includes a "greenwashing" emoji designed by Shepard Fairey, an artist best known for the 2008 Barack Obama "Hope" poster.

The Unicode Consortium released a report of the most popular emojis for the first time, which informs what new emoji the group decides to add. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

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.

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 ...