The pictorial shorthand of emojis is perfect for small phone screens. It has also sprawled into a lexicon rich in metaphor ...

Why Will Some Unicode Symbols Not Display in Java?. Encoding and displaying characters from different languages used to mean working between multiple different formatting systems within the same ...

On World Emoji Day, celebrated on July 17, we celebrate emojis in all their quirky, colorful glory. Love them or judge them, ...

Surprise! Assorted jerks on the internet have weaponized the Unicode-based bug we reported yesterday to insta-crash apps running on an iPhone or a Mac. The result is somewhere between the old Alt ...

Uniconsole lets you copy “unconvential” Unicode characters and symbols of various kinds and alphabets. While you can find these for free on the web, Uniconsole provides a nice interface to switch ...

These are characters which can be built from multiple glyphs, but they also have a pre-built Unicode point. There are also ligatures that combine multiple characters into a single code point.

July 17 is Emoji day - chosen because that is the date shown on most calendar emojis. The first emoji were invented by Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita in 1999, and have since become so popular that ...

Unicode is a massive, sprawling effort that pairs a number to every unique character in a language, every punctuation mark, every math symbol, and much more. And nearly all of it is available ...

You know Unicode symbols, right? The ones you might find in tweets from time to time, or in links from Daring Fireball and Shawn Blanc’s website. Yes, these symbols. It turns out, they’re pretty cute.

"This document reflects proposed Emoji symbols data as shown in FDAM8 which includes the disposition of FPDAM8 ballot comments and changes agreed during the San José WG2 meeting 56.