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 ...

If you've been unenthused about the emoji of recent years, you're not alone. A flashlight? A toolbox? A fire extinguisher? A tin can? Who even uses these? The emoji set to appear on your phone next ...

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 ...

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 ...

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While Apple is bringing a handful of new emoji to its users with the upcoming release of iOS 10.2, the Unicode Consortium today approved 51 new emoji as part of the Unicode 10 release. The new emoji ...

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 ...

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The Unicode Consortium has finalized version 15.1 of the Unicode standard this week. Although Unicode is used to display tens of thousands of characters in languages used worldwide, the headlining ...

It’s been essentially confirmed in the past, but today the Unicode Consortium officially unveiled the 72 new emoji that will be made available in Unicode 9. The latest batch of emoji include a variety ...

Last year, the Unicode Consortium–which decides upon and standardizes emoji–added more skin tones to its catalog. Today, Unicode took another step towards making emoji more diverse: emoji are finally ...