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

Jimmy Kimmel gave a salute to “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” — and blasted rival network CBS — on Thursday evening, ...

Using Unicode with MySQL 4.1 is simple, and there are two ways to specify which character set to use. The first approach specifies a character set as the default for a table; the second declares a ...

But a technical report released by the Unicode Consortium--and simultaneously published as a note by the W3C's internationalization activity--warns document authors that some Unicode features are ...

Unicode Consortium 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.

Now, Unicode Hex Input, though it can generate any Unicode character if you happen to know its hex code, is obviously impractical. In real life, there needs to be a better way of typing characters.

Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for scientific notation, emoji, and other kinds of marks. The standard currently includes nearly 150,000 unique characters, each with its own ...

Unicode 9.0 will be released to companies June 21. Advertisement. Eagle-eyed emoji users will note that there is already a firearm option: A handgun, which on at least one occasion got someone fired.

Apple proposed 13 new emoji to the Unicode Consortium. The emoji are accessibility-themed and include a guide dog and a blind person using a cane.

The Unicode Consortium, the governing body in charge of the official emoji, has announced a bunch of new pictographs for version 12.0. As is usually the case, ...