An update to Unicode Standard is now available, and introduces approximately 250 emoji pictographic symbols. The emojis are a part of the Unicode 7.0 software update from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

This project collects special Unicode characters used for creating art and visual effects in command-line interfaces. Since command lines don't support traditional graphics, these characters allow ...

Today the Unicode Consortium, the shadowy organization that, among other things, determines what emoji should work across all manner of electronic devices, published the initial list of emoji that it ...

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 ...

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.

Unicode 15.0 will support a total of 149.186 characters, including 3,664 emoji characters (once you account for all modifiers, including those for skin, hair color, and gender).

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.