The Unicode Consortium has released version 12.0 of its Unicode Standard. The group is behind emojis and generally making sure text typed on one device can be displayed on another device. The release ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this ...

Unicode 16.0 release with new emoji brings character count to 154,998 New designs will roll out to phones, tablets, and PCs over the next few months. Andrew Cunningham – Sep 12, 2024 2:39 pm | 109 ...

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 ...

Unicode has announced Emoji 11.0 Beta. The new release includes directional emojis and will also add certain candidates like cupcake, woman/man red-haired, teddy bear, swan, mango, party face and ...

Unicode 10.0 also adds a new currency symbol for Bitcoin, though the character is not an emoji. Even though the Unicode update is now ready for the masses, it will still take some time before you ...

Have you got a killer idea for the next great emoji? If so, you can enter your brilliant suggestion to be considered as an official character by following these simple steps.

Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts ...

Those were both added to the Unicode standard, but then late in the process, it was decided that those would not be considered as emoji characters. They won’t make it onto, say, your iPhone.

To use a Unicode character set in SQL, specify the character set when creating or altering a database, table, or column. For example, you can use "UTF8" or "UTF16" to indicate Unicode encoding.