Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...

The Unicode 18 draft is here! From the long-awaited Pickle to the Lighthouse and Meteor, see the new emojis coming to iOS 27 ...

It’s official: The Unicode Consortium recently confirmed 72 new emoji for the Unicode 9 set, which is scheduled to drop later in June of 2016. If you’re wondering how to get the Unicode 9 emoji, ...

The peach. The eggplant. Okay, nevermind those. Last time around, it was the taco that made waves in the digital messaging sphere. What can we look forward to as the next big emoji? Not a dumpling one ...

If you thought the middle finger emoji was a welcome addition to your iPhone emoji game, then you should know that even more characters may be coming soon to your favorite chat app. As many as 74 new ...

Unicode is a massive, sprawling effort that pairs a number to every unique character in a language, every punctuation mark, every math symbol, and much more. And nearly all of it is available within ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (CBS) – In preparation for World Emoji Day, emoji-maker Unicode is out with its finalists for a new update. A saluting face, biting lip and low battery are among the possible ...

Encoding and displaying characters from different languages used to mean working between multiple different formatting systems within the same project. Even though the introduction of Unicode ...