Chinese pronouns are largely split between female and male – prompting LGBTQ activists to invent their own gender-neutral pronoun. That movement just took a big step forward.

What makes this moment particularly striking is that Chinese did not originally have gendered pronouns at all. The character ...

Google is introducing over 160 new emoji in the Android 16 QPR3 update next March. Here's all the new emoji coming to your Pixel phone!

For reference, Unicode 17.0 came out on September 9, introducing well over 160 new characters. The current stable version of ...

Computer engineer [Marco Cilloni] realized a lot of developers today still have trouble dealing with Unicode in their programs, especially in the C/C++ world. He wrote an excellent guide that ...

Decoding Unicode in this video explores the growth and history of Unicode, including a chart remade from John Cook's post. It covers the debut of ASCII, the evolution of Unicode, and insights into ...

For anyone old enough to have worked with the hell of multiple incompatible character sets, Unicode has been a liberation; a true One Character Set To Contain Them All. We have so many Unicode ...

In 2024, the Unicode Consortium debuted new emoji in September 2024, including the face with bags under eyes and the splatter emoji. You can find those emoji now on your Android and iPhone devices, as ...