Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, the Unicode 17 emoji recommendations came out [PDF ...

(RNS) Religious emojis are on the rise. A new batch will be part of Unicode's upcoming release. (RNS) In addition to smiley faces, high heels and frogs, Unicode is rolling out a new batch of 250 ...

NEED to show you are swearing, warn of a zombie apocalypse or that you want to be naked in a sauna and holding a spoon? Here are this year’s new emoji. The Unicode Consortium that governs the ...

In the early days of online chatting people used different characters on the keyboard as a shortcut to convey an emotion. The happy face 🙂 to convey happiness or joy. The frowny face 🙁 to convey ...

Last month, the Unicode Consortium, a group that oversees the way text is coded into computer-readable language, published a new draft proposal that outlined not just the addition of 37 new emoji ...

New emoji are coming! The organization that approves new emoji before they hit your keyboard has just announced 72 more emoji which will be added to the Unicode standard (Unicode 9.0) later this month ...

The high and low collided at the world’s first emoji convention in San Francisco on Saturday, and the result was . Linguists, emoji designers from tech powerhouses like Google and officials from the ...