unicode 8.0 One 'unicode 8.0' story December 2015 See All Stories Android update Emoji emojis unicode New emojis coming to Android next week, Nexus devices to be updated first ...

The Unicode Consortium finalized version 8.0 of the Unicode standard yesterday—the latest iteration of the spec that helps our computers and phones keep all their special characters straight.

UTF Encoding A UTF-8 character is also a Unicode character that consists of 8 bytes. A byte is a small computer unit. UTF-8 is also an efficient format used widely in transmissions over the Internet.

Aside from emoji, Unicode 8.0 includes a set of lowercase Cherokee syllables to go along with existing Cherokee glyphs, support for Ik language characters in Uganda, Kulango in the Côte d ...

It could take some time for them to incorporate all the changes: Unicode 8.0 was released in June 2015, but the taco emoji wasn’t available to Apple users until October.

In a blog post announcing MySQL 8.0.0’s development milestone release (DMR), MySQL’s engineers outlined the most significant changes, some of which address problems that have plagued MySQL for ...

The new emojis belong to various categories, including animals, supernatural creatures, and musical instruments. Read on for the details. As part of the world emoji day celebrations, the Unicode ...

Along with emoji, Unicode 9.0 will include 19 symbols used in Japanese TV broadcasting, as well as modern scripts like Adlam, Osage, and Newa, and historic scripts including Bhaiksuki, Marchen ...