The Unicode Consortium sets the international standards for characters, including emoji, across software platforms, and it uses frequency as one factor to determine which emoji make the cut.

right there with you, bags-under-eyes emoji 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.

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 ...

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 released its report on Nov. 3, and while there is no set date for the arrival of these diverse emoji, the report is a clear indication that Unicode is listening and taking action.

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.

Unicode 7.0 adds 2,834 new characters to the existing list of 110,187 characters defined by Unicode 6.3, including new symbols for currency, new "lesser-used and historic scripts," and extended ...