As emojis become a widespread form of global messaging, San Jose leaders are calling on the world's leading text encoders to add a symbol for the Flag of South Vietnam.

The entire process between being introduced by the Unicode Consortium as a candidate to actually being included in Messages can take about a year. There's also the fact that the Unicode Consortium ...

The Unicode Consortium regularly updates the emojis available for use on phones including iPhone and Android. A previous campaign for an afro hair emoji in 2019 gained 65,000 signatures, but the ...

First previewed in May 2024, the Unicode Consortium revealed Unicode 16, which included the all-new emojis coming with iOS 18 and Android 15. After the beta review period, Apple, Google ...

with each codepoint being a number assigned meaning by the Unicode Consortium. While most users are familiar with the one-to-one mapping between codepoints and visible characters in Latin-based ...

A leafless, lifeless tree is among the most striking new emojis coming to our smartphones in the coming weeks, as part of the latest batch being released by the Unicode Consortium, which sets the ...

the Unicode Consortium adds new emoji to the Unicode standard, which are released alongside other updates to the standard. Unicode 16.0, for example, adds support for the following 7 emoji ...

Unicode ensures that these characters are displayed properly across devices. While the Unicode Consortium regularly meets on the inclusion of new emoji, they would not be responsible for changing how ...

Back in May, we got a glimpse of the next round of emoji coming to our iPhones next year, including a harp, shovel, and a face with bags under its eyes, but the Unicode Consortium is already ...

They’re trying to expand people’s digital (Big)foot print. The Unicode Consortium is ringing in the New Year with a proposed treasure trove of new emojis for 2025, including a facsimile of ...

But who actually decides what emojis we get to use? Jennifer 8. Lee is a member of the Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Consortium is a group of people who decide on which new emoji characters ...