Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...

Emoji fans, rejoice! In October, the Unicode Consortium proposed nine new emoji as part of the upcoming Unicode 18.0. One of the proposed emoji is a pickle, which I think could replace the eggplant as ...

When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji ...

Don't expect to see new flags in your phone's emoji any time soon. The Unicode Consortium has warned it will "no longer accept proposals" for flag emoji, regardless of category. They're more trouble ...

But how will we indicate to our social-media acquaintances that we’re drinking pinot grigio instead of pinot noir?!? After petitioning for more than a year, wine enthusiasts have learned that the ...

The latest Unicode 9.0 is officially here, adding a slew of new characters, scripts, symbols and emoji to spice up your conversations. We already knew the Unicode 9 goodies were set to launch on June ...

With just two days before World Emoji Day on July 17th, Emojipedia has shared a list of draft characters the Unicode Consortium will consider for final inclusion in Unicode 14.0. The list includes ...