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With just two days before World Emoji Day on July 17th, Emojipedia has shared a list of draft characters the Unicode Consortium will consider for final inclusion in Unicode 14.0.
A handful of airports across the country are pushing Unicode for a new plane-landing emoji after claiming the current one appears too “crash-y.” The social media team behind the Dallas/Fort ...
"Modern pentathlon," which in some iterations shows a man pointing a gun, ... Apple had started the discussion that led to the debate over the inclusion of the rifle emoji in Unicode 9.0. ...
It's the Tears of Joy Emoji, according to Unicode, which says that it accounted for 5% of every Emoji sent in 2021. While 5% may not seem like much, it represents a truly massive number of Emoji ...
Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird. Andrew Cunningham – Jun 16, 2014 5:50 pm | 81 ...
With September upon us, just like clockwork, the Consortium has given the green light for Unicode 15.0, complete with 31 new emoji — and if that weren't enough, it's also being joined by Google ...
The number of emoji has ballooned from around 700 in 2010 to more than 3,600 today, should all 31 symbols presented in the draft list last week be approved come September.(It’s worth pointing ...
The Unicode Standard Version 7.0 brings with it 250 new emoji as part of the selection of new characters, many of which have been adapted from characters in Windings and Webdings fonts.
We've seen a few people share on social media that the Unicode 16.0 release includes a "greenwashing" emoji designed by Shepard Fairey, an artist best known for the 2008 Barack Obama "Hope" poster.