The Unicode Consortium has announced version 7.0 of the Unicode character-encoding standard, bringing an additional 2,834 new characters and 250 new emojis to its already extensive character set. The ...

Earlier this week, software engineer Paul Butler published a blog post titled "Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji." In it, he showcased a tool he created to allow you to do this yourself and ...

Inspired by previously mentioned tinyarro.ws URL-shortening service, reader David decided to try inserting helpful Unicode characters in his Gmail labels to give more context to each label. The sort ...

The big picture: The Unicode Consortium recently announced the latest Unicode Standard, Version 14. This version brings more than 838 new characters, including 37 emoji characters ranging from biting ...

The Unicode Consortium on Monday announced the latest Unicode Standard version 7.0 release includes 2,834 new characters and — more importantly to avid texters — more than 250 pictographs, otherwise ...

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 that ...

Good news, emoji fans: 56 new characters are officially ready to make their debut. But that doesn't mean the wait is over just yet, as it will take some time before companies will make the update ...

Unicode has announced the much awaited Emoji 11.0 beta list. Apparently, more than 130 emojis were in the race for a place in the final version and some of them included cupcake, woman/man red-haired, ...

The Unicode 10.0 standard has been released by the Unicode Consortium. In summary Unicode 10.0 has added 8,518 new characters for a total of 136,690. Among the notable additions to the character ...

The list of emojis of 2016 has been released by Unicode and some of them include the taco emoji, selfie emoji and bacon emoji. A total of 67 emojis have been released and accepted as candidates by the ...

Have you ever used Twitter, Gmail, or YouTube and noticed odd characters being displayed vertically overlay other text on the page or break out UI boundaries? If so and have wondered how this is ...