MeitY rejoins Unicode Consortium as a government member, influencing global standardization of text and emojis.

Unicode has been the default standard for representation and handling of text. Emoji, as a text-based representation of emotions, have been a part of Unicode ever since 2010 from the release of ...

The most used Emoji isn't all that surprising, and there's a good chance that you received or sent it today. It's the Tears ...

Most of the Unicode 16.0 emoji, by contrast, are their own unique characters. The one exception is the Sark flag emoji; flag sequences are created by placing two "regional indicator letters ...

As someone who's been spending serious time observing how people use emoji over the past few years, my hunch was no. But I wasn't able to prove it until a new Unicode dataset came out a few weeks ...

You have to give the Unicode’s Emoji Subcommittee some credit. As emoji has risen in popularity to become the primary way we express ourselves over text, the Unicode Consortium is burdened with ...

Two activists want the Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language handshape for "I love you" to Unicode 9.

The Consortium is the organization responsible for maintaining Unicode, a digital standard for text that also includes the nearly 4,000 Emoji many of our devices can utilize.