Unicode's is adding new emoji options to its standard this fall, including what looks like a Bigfoot emoji.

The first images have been published of a fresh wave of 250 emoji’s to be added to the current emoticon list for Google, Apple, Twitter et al. Devised by the Unicode Consortium the new list ...

Ska heads have been waiting for this: A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji ...

Twitter's new logo, 𝕏, is a Unicode character that's been used in math notation and textbooks for decades, one researcher said.

A proposal to add a bisexual pride flag emoji was rejected by Unicode, but many people are continuing the fight to have the bi flag added.

We have so many Unicode characters to play with that there’s a fascinating pursuit in itself in probing at the obscure corners of what can be rendered on screen as a Unicode glyph.

Even though the introduction of Unicode technically solved this problem, you can still encounter situations in which some or all of your Unicode characters will not display properly in Java programs.

As you might notice in the Greek example, there is nothing to help the decoder know which base-36 characters belong to which original Unicode symbol.