Last year, I wrote about how emoji-coder Unicode added 230 emoji, such as a banjo and kite, but neglected to include the trans pride flag.That was rectified this year: A trans flag emoji has now ...

He says that the trans pride flag emoji’s proposals in 2017 and 2018 didn’t include enough evidence that the emoji would be used. The trans community is speaking up about Unicode’s silence.

To celebrate the day, Apple News+ on Thursday released Emoji Game, a new, digital puzzle in which you use emoji to complete ...

Don't expect to see new flags in your phone's emoji any time soon. The Unicode Consortium has warned it will "no longer accept proposals" for flag emoji, regardless of category. They're more ...

The submission window for Emoji 16.0 proposals will be open from April 4 through July 31, but Unicode will not process any new flag emoji proposals, the consortium said in a blog post Monday.

The Unicode Consortium – the nonprofit organization that, among other things, decides what emoji will work on phones – has announced that the transgender flag as one of the 117 new emoji ...

The flag for Western Sahara, a disputed territory in Northwest Africa, has a corollary on the emoji keyboard. Réunion, a small island that is still legally part of France, has its own emoji flag too.

The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria.