If you've been unenthused about the emoji of recent years, you're not alone. A flashlight? A toolbox? A fire extinguisher? A tin can? Who even uses these? The emoji set to appear on your phone next ...

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Hundreds of new emoji are on the way, but don’t expect them to encourage more diverse pictograph communication. Unicode first introduced a standardized set of emoji characters in 2010, allowing third ...

The Unicode Consortium has released version 12.0 of its Unicode Standard. The group is behind emojis and generally making sure text typed on one device can be displayed on another device. The release ...

A new draft proposal published Tuesday at the Unicode Consortium outlines a way of diversifying the mostly white people who populate your emoji keyboard. The system, presented by Google software ...

This past February, 157 new emoji were released by the Unicode Consortium, the organization that approves standardized digital symbols. Missing from that list is a transgender flag emoji. But the ...

The Unicode Consortium is a rather mysterious entity. Its stated goal is straightforward: to "enable people around the world to use computers in any language." The organization tracks every character ...