What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

Unicode has warned that it no longer accepts new flag emoji, as they're apparently too much of a hassle.

The Unicode Emoji Subcommittee determines which characters will become part of the official emoji lexicon, creating a uniform code that can be used across platforms.

Unicode launched version 14.0 of its language coding standard on Tuesday, complete with 37 new emojis, over 800 new characters and support for lesser-used languages and symbols. The new emojis ...

Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts.

When Unicode releases new codes for emoji, it is up to the software companies – Apple, Microsoft, Windows, and every social media company that uses them – to design how they will look.

And Unicode’s emoji technical subcommittee applies various rules and tests before approving a new emoji. The whole vetting process for a single candidate emoji normally takes around 18 months.

This past summer, the Unicode Consortium introduced about 250 new standard emoji, including a spider web, sunglasses and a hand giving the middle finger. Conspicuously missing from the emoji ...

For skin tone and gender, the Unicode Consortium has come up with more creative solutions, choosing instead to combine multiple codes together to create a single emoji.

Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, ...