What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that string ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced on its blog that it will no longer be accepting proposals for new flags into the Unicode standard.

Unicode 8's set of 41 new emoji — 37 images and five modifiers — may have just been released in July, but we're already looking ahead to the next update. What will the Unicode 9 emoji look ...

Paul Hunt is a type designer at Adobe who helped bring the orange heart and more gender-inclusive emoji to Unicode 10, the upcoming version of Unicode Standard. The orange addition is key for ...

According to Unicode, this is the emoji we use the most Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for.

Once the Unicode Consortium decides on a final candidate list in September, the finalists will make their way to your devices starting in late 2021 and throughout 2022.

Unicode 9 is the latest update to the Unicode standard, which includes the standard set of emoji available for all operating systems and platforms to use. We knew we could expect them in late June ...