Although they are not used that often, flag emojis cover the largest category in the current text icons approved by Unicode Consortium. More than 200 out of 3,600 emojis are flag icons.

The Unicode Consortium has released a preview of emoji that will be in the Unicode 17.0 release, including Hairy Creature and ...

Unicode shared a list of 21 new emoji it is considering for the next release. It includes a shaking face, left- and rightwards pushing hands, moose, donkey, wing, black bird, goose and jellyfish.

Today, with the release of Unicode Version 7, the organization that standardizes text across the software industry has responded … albeit not the way many users had hoped.