Previously: • 'Mom, Dad, where do emoji come from?' The Unicode Consortium, son. • The mystery of ⍼, a Unicode character of unknown purpose • All the 'misfit' unicode characters that look ...

It’s that time of year again! The Unicode Consortium has released a preview of new emoji that will likely be included in a ...

Today, the Unicode Consortium has released Unicode version 7.0, adding 2,834 new characters. Unicode is the industry standard that regulates encoding and representation of text across computers, with ...