The Unicode 18 draft is here! From the long-awaited Pickle to the Lighthouse and Meteor, see the new emojis coming to iOS 27 ...

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 ...

It’s official: The Unicode Consortium recently confirmed 72 new emoji for the Unicode 9 set, which is scheduled to drop later in June of 2016. If you’re wondering how to get the Unicode 9 emoji, ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

The peach. The eggplant. Okay, nevermind those. Last time around, it was the taco that made waves in the digital messaging sphere. What can we look forward to as the next big emoji? Not a dumpling one ...

Encoding and displaying characters from different languages used to mean working between multiple different formatting systems within the same project. Even though the introduction of Unicode ...

For anyone old enough to have worked with the hell of multiple incompatible character sets, Unicode has been a liberation; a true One Character Set To Contain Them All. We have so many Unicode ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (CBS) – In preparation for World Emoji Day, emoji-maker Unicode is out with its finalists for a new update. A saluting face, biting lip and low battery are among the possible ...

The next set of emojis could finally include everything you’ve been waiting for – and then some. The Unicode Consortium has published a list of the 51 candidates for Unicode 10, set to be released in ...