The Unicode Consortium today released Unicode 8, the next update to the Unicode Standard that defines special characters and symbols, including emoji. Unicode 8 introduces 7,716 new characters ...

Unicode 8 introduces 7,716 new characters, including six new scripts and new symbols, with letters to support languages in Africa, lowercase Cherokee symbols, and more.

Apple implemented these modifiers in iOS 8.3 and OS X 10.10.3, back when Unicode 8.0 was still a draft, and Microsoft looks to support them in the upcoming Windows 10.

Version 8.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available ...

Aside from emoji, Unicode 8.0 includes a set of lowercase Cherokee syllables to go along with existing Cherokee glyphs, support for Ik language characters in Uganda, Kulango in the Côte d ...

In Unicode 8.0, five emoji were added to complete the zodiac, for example. So while a petition looks good, it has little effect in terms of getting your emoji selected.

Android head Hiroshi Lockheimer has announced on Twitter this evening that Android devices will soon support the latest set of Unicode emojis. Lockheimer confirmed in his tweet that an update will ...

It could take some time for them to incorporate all the changes: Unicode 8.0 was released in June 2015, but the taco emoji wasn’t available to Apple users until October.

Laut Unicode-Konsortium sollen die Emoji-Änderungen inklusive Hautton-Modifikator in das Unicode 8.0 Update integriert werden, dass für Mitte 2015 geplant ist.

Das Unicode-Konsortium hat jüngst Unicode 8 veröffentlicht. Damit folgen eine Reihe neuer Emojis für Mobilgeräte für ein noch süßeres Chat-Erlebnis.