Emojis may be a fairly new phenomenon, but Unicode has been working on standardizing the encoding of hundreds of languages for more than twenty years. The group began its work “to replace what was a ...

If historical patterns are anything to go by, new versions of Android and iOS 📱 will launch this year, and they’ll include new additions to the emoji tool set. Included in the new Emoji 13.0 set are ...

Emoji don’t appear out of nowhere. They’re managed by a governing body of the internet known as the Unicode Consortium, which sets encoding standards for characters so that they appear mostly ...