As we’ve said, aside from petitioning Unicode to add a new emoji character, when it comes to adding custom emojis inside an app you’re really just dropping in emoji-like stickers.

The concept gained popularity in Japan and by 2010, Unicode rolled out a massive release of more than 1,000 emojis to get with the burgeoning trend—the rest is history. MORE FOR YOU ...

What makes Genmoji in iOS 18 unique is that Apple designed an API to make them work like stickers and Memoji and behave like emojis. According to a developer’s session, Genmoji can be used ...

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 ...

Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for scientific notation, emoji, and other kinds of marks. The standard currently includes nearly 150,000 unique characters, each with its own ...

Twitter on Monday rolled out its new logo and brand: 𝕏. 𝕏 is a Unicode character known as "mathematical double-struck capital X." The new logo is also nearly identical to the lowercase "x ...

Samsung is known to lag behind when it comes to emoji, but with One UI 5, not only is the company catching up, but it's also now ahead of the curve, bringing brand-new Unicode 15 emoji to your ...

A UTF-8 character is also a Unicode character that consists of 8 bytes. A byte is a small computer unit. UTF-8 is also an efficient format used widely in transmissions over the Internet.