Two emojis were dropped at the last minute from Unicode's original list of 74 new characters: Modern pentathalon, which features a man shooting a gun, and a stand-alone rifle emoji. (Emojipedia) ...

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 ...

Following a pandemic-related delay, the Unicode Consortium has finalized Unicode 14.0. In all, the update adds 838 characters to the text standard. Of those 838 characters, 37 represent new emoji ...

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 ...

If you like emoji, you’re about to get a whole lot more of them. The Unicode Consortium released its approved final list of new emojis for 2019, including new animals, food and more. Dubbed ‘Emoji ...

WHEN the next batch of emoji arrive there is a certain type that most definitely will not feature, after bosses behind the symbols put their foot down. The Unicode Consortium which overseas all emo… ...

The Unicode Consortium sets the international standards for characters, including emoji, across software platforms, and it uses frequency as one factor to determine which emoji make the cut.

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).

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

We last got new emoji in 2023's Unicode 15.1 update, though all of these designs were technically modifications of existing emoji rather than new characters—many emoji, most notably for skin and ...