The Unicode Consortium has finalized version 15.1 of the Unicode standard this week. Although Unicode is used to display tens of thousands of characters in languages used worldwide, the headlining ...

This was likely because 15.1 was only intended as a minor update to 2022's Unicode 15.0 standard. Most of the Unicode 16.0 emoji, by contrast, are their own unique characters.

Emoji have become a core part of how we communicate, and today, Google has a few announcements, including Unicode 15 emoji additions, animated versions of Android’s emoji, and more.

With September upon us, just like clockwork, the Consortium has given the green light for Unicode 15.0, complete with 31 new emoji — and if that weren't enough, it's also being joined by Google ...

What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

In mid-September, the Unicode Consortium gave the Unicode 15 standard a green light. It included 4,489 new characters, of which 20 were new emoji (31, if you count every skin tone variation).

Pick a screen, any screen, and chances are someone is deep in a text conversation. While phone calls are still around, ...

Android 16 DP2 includes an updated emoji font file with 7 new emoji that are part of Unicode 16.0. Unicode, if you aren’t aware, is the universal text encoding standard that assigns unique ...

The tech giant said that update will bring a transparent glass design to icons and menus and much more to your iPhone this ...

In an oft-cited Washington Law Review article from that year, “Emojis and the Law,” Professor Eric Goldman referenced court ...

That includes support for Unicode 15 Emoji. This was actually supposed to be included in the previous QPR update. But good to see it available now.