In April, iOS users finally got their hands on the new emoji icons introduced in the Unicode 16 update; we can expect to see ...

The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that develops and maintains the computing industry standard for how text, punctuation, and emoji look across platforms, recently updated its emoji chart. The ...

After months of anticipation and (apparently) some debate, 72 new emoji characters are officially on their way to smartphones everywhere as part of Unicode 9.0. The emoji keyboard update, released to ...

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 ...

Thanks to pressure from Apple, a new set of emojis will not contain a rifle. The Unicode Consortium -- the shadowy overlords who approve and code new emojis -- said Friday that a depiction of a scoped ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Emoji: we've been doing them wrongly. There are rules about these matters, as it transpires - codes and regulations, guidelines and ...

The Unicode Consortium today released a list of 38 emoji characters that are candidates for inclusion in Unicode 9.0, which is set to be released in the middle of 2016. These represent emoji that ...

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The Unicode Consortium released a list of the most frequently used emoji for the first time ever. 😂 and ️ topped the list. Unicode uses frequency to determine which emoji categories to focus on in ...