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

Unicode needs to see that people are actually using the term your emoji covers. 4. Look for gaps Unicode wants emojis that fill gaps in existing sequences like card suits or zodiac animals. 5.

A swastika wouldn’t be approved either. Each year, a new version of the Unicode Standard is released. This year we got Unicode 10.0, which adds 8,518 characters, for a total of 136,690.

As news spreads that Apple had a role in blocking the rifle emoji from being released through Unicode 9.0., many are celebrating the efforts of all companies who voted to nix it on behalf of ...

What’s also notable about the above list is that the Unicode Consortium has been working on it longer than usual. In 2020, the organization delayed the release of Unicode 14.0 due to the pandemic.

Social media users are convinced that an emoji showing a woman visiting the spa has vanished from their devices. Do you ...

The laugh-cry emoji, or 😂, is the most-used emoji in the world, according the Unicode Consortium. In fact, the 10 most-used emoji haven't changed much since 2019.

Unicode approval doesn't mean that the new emoji will magically appear on your keyboard tomorrow, unfortunately. Software makers like Google, Apple, and Microsoft will still need to deploy them.It ...

At 31 new symbols — which include a shaking face, a moose, a goose, and maracas — the count was roughly a quarter of the 112 emoji approved in 2021 as part of Unicode 14.0, and a fraction of ...

Moreover, Unicode can't remove a character once added — while it can update emoji, it's hesitant to add a flag that might not last long. Usage was also a major concern.