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 9.0 will be released to companies June 21. Eagle-eyed emoji users will note that there is already a firearm option: A handgun, which on at least one occasion got someone fired.

Flat shoes! Redheads! Yarn! — to drop, but Apple is already on to the next batch. The company announced on Friday that it has proposed 13 new, accessibility-themed emoji to the Unicode Consortium.

Unicode needs to see that people are actually using the term your emoji covers. 4. Look for gaps Unicode wants emojis that fill gaps in existing sequences like card suits or zodiac animals. 5.

During a recent meeting of the Unicode Technical Committee, Unicode president Mark Davis announced more than 65 new, potential emoji which are being considered for the next batch.

What's more, Unicode is adding a female option to 33 existing emoji, including a runner, haircut, police officer and a range of other activities. Until now, there were only male versions of those.

In July, the Unicode Technical Committee was a bit of a buzzkill: It announced that for now, it would not add a white-wine emoji to Unicode’s standard emoji mix.

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.

Unicode, the character-encoding standard that underpins a vast amount of the Internet and many computing applications, has been updated to include an additional 250 “emoji” and several other ...

The hijab emoji, as it's informally known, was submitted in 2016 to the Unicode Consortium a nonprofit that oversees emoji standards with voting members from the world's top digital companies. It ...

No new emoji will be unveiled in 2021. The planned annual release instead will be pushed back to 2022, according to the Unicode Consortium, a non-profit that oversees emoji standards and is ...