The avocado is one of 72 new emojis introduced today by the Unicode Foundation, which governs the omnipresent icons. You won't be able to use them on your smartphone just yet, because firms like ...

That’s why it is important for Apple to work with the Unicode Consortium to update the standard to include more characters. Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed.

The new emoji are likely to arrive on smartphones next year after Unicode, the international consortium that set their global standards, proposed the 51 icons. It will take the total number of the ...

The group is called the Unicode Consortium, and although it has historically decided standards for text and punctuation, it has shifted a lot of focus to emojis due to their recent popularity.

They’re simple, fun, and with the new Unicode Emoji 13.0, the list will grow by quite a bit. The finalized list was just released over on the Unicode blog, and it includes 62 new icons.

Buzzfeed reported on Friday that Apple lobbied the emoji technical standards body, Unicode, to eliminate a rifle emoji from the new set of pictograms coming in this June’s Unicode 9.0 release.

Unicode 13 characters are expected to be adopted by Apple starting this fall, perhaps in an update to iOS 14. It typically takes Apple several months to design new artwork for emoji characters ...