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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...