The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all ...

The generally accepted Unicode standard is used to encode, represent and process text in most of the world's languages. In addition to text itself, Unicode also supports many characters such as emoji.

Unicode 7.0 adds 2,834 new characters to the existing list of 110,187 characters defined by Unicode 6.3, ... The list of emoji also extends the character set's adorable fascination with outmoded ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced version 7.0 of the Unicode character-encoding standard, bringing an additional 2,834 new characters and 250 new emojis to its already extensive character set.