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Unicode 17.0 Released Includes New Emojis: Hairy Creature, Cartoonish Expression, Distorted Face, Trombone, Killer Whale, Treasure Chest, and Falling Debris

Version 17.0 of Unicode, the character encoding standard, was released on September 9, 2025. It adds 4,803 new characters, including four new characters and several emojis, bringing the total number ...
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Unicode version 16.0 released with new emojis, 'faces with bags under the eyes,' 'hieroglyphs,' 'addition of arrows,' 'addition of information on the Japanese character ...

Version 16.0 of the Unicode standard has been released, adding 3,995 new hieroglyphs and seven new emojis, bringing the total number of characters defined in the Unicode standard to 154,998. The ...