As per Emojipedia, there are in fact just seven new basic emojis: Distorted Face, Fight Cloud, Orca, Hairy Creature (think ...

Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The nonprofit organization maintains the Unicode Standard, the universal system for the numeric encoding of letters and characters so they can be ...

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 ...

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 Android 16 doesn't support said characters and the emojis that come with it ...

People all over the world want to have emoji that reflect more human diversity, especially for skin tone. The Unicode emoji characters for people and body parts are meant to be generic, yet following ...

The symbol will be added to Unicode in its next update, which will likely come out next year. When it does, coders will be able to use the new symbol as they would a U.S. dollar symbol ($) or U.K.

With just two days before World Emoji Day on July 17th, Emojipedia has shared a list of draft characters the Unicode Consortium will consider for final inclusion in Unicode 14.0. The list includes ...