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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

There have been a variety of Unicode encoding methods over the years, but modern programs dealing with strings will probably be using UTF-8 encoding — and you should too.

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.

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.

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.

Unicode version 8.0 has been released by the Unicode Consortium as of this week. Inside you'll find 41 new emoji. Some of the previously un-announced additions are as follows: ...