Users have long agitated for more — and more diverse — emoji, arguing that the popular Japanese pictographs simply don’t contain enough characters for modern, global communication. Today, with the ...

The big picture: The Unicode Consortium recently announced the latest Unicode Standard, Version 14. This version brings more than 838 new characters, including 37 emoji characters ranging from biting ...

Ahead of World Emoji Day, the emoji experts at Emojipedia have compiled and published sample images of the 31 new emoji characters slated for inclusion in version 15.0 of the Unicode standard. Among ...

Using the in-built utilities Charmap and Eudcedit, Windows allows you to insert Unicode and special characters in Notepad and your other documents. But the process is not easy and takes a bit of time.

iOS: Unicode-created emoji might be hot shit now, but they’re no help when you need to access more obscure punctuation marks, accented characters, and currency symbols in a document or totally witty ...

If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.

The Unicode Consortium has now published its final list of emojis for 2019, including 230 new emojis coming to most platforms later this year. In this year’s emoji release, the consortium is planning ...

This project demonstrates how Unicode characters, specifically invisible or non-rendering ones, can be used to hide information within text. This hidden information, while invisible to human users ...

In a nutshell: A recent blog post by software engineer Paul Butler has shed light on a novel technique for concealing data within Unicode characters, specifically emojis. The post explains the concept ...