In the wake of National Emoji Day, here are the nine new emoji announced by the Unicode Consortium. Here’s all you need to ...

iOS: Unicode-created emoji might be hot shit now, but they’re no help when you need to access more obscure punctuation marks, accented characters, and currency symbols in a document or totally ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to ...

Uniconsole does one thing extremely well, and while the characters and symbols it collects can be found online with a bit of research, I’ll take the convenience of a Universal app over wasting my time ...

With 16-bits allowing for 2 16 = 65,536 code points, the 7,129 characters of Unicode 1.0 fit easily, but by the time Unicode 3.1 rolled around in 2001, Unicode contained no less than 94,140 ...

Unicode 9.0 and the standard new emoji will be supported across all platforms, with support in Microsoft Windows arriving with the anniversary update. Google is planning to include the new ...

There’s a semi-hidden way to access special symbol sets in Unicode, and a somewhat obscure method of searching for specific symbols across all of macOS’s included Unicode characters. First: ...

Unicode 10.0 adds 8,518 characters, for a total of 136,690 characters. These additions include 4 new scripts, for a total of 139 scripts, as well as 56 new emoji characters.

"It's intended to cover all characters for all languages that have ever been written down through all of history," says Ken Whistler, a technical director at the Unicode Consortium. That means ...