The big picture: The Unicode Consortium recently announced the latest Unicode Standard, Version 14. This version brings more than 838 new characters, including 37 emoji characters ranging from biting ...

Have you ever used Twitter, Gmail, or YouTube and noticed odd characters being displayed vertically overlay other text on the page or break out UI boundaries? If so and have wondered how this is ...

Inspired by previously mentioned tinyarro.ws URL-shortening service, reader David decided to try inserting helpful Unicode characters in his Gmail labels to give more context to each label. The sort ...

Earlier this week, software engineer Paul Butler published a blog post titled "Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji." In it, he showcased a tool he created to allow you to do this yourself and ...

iOS: Unicode-created emoji might be hot shit now, but they’re no help when you need to access more obscure punctuation marks, accented characters, and currency symbols in a document or totally witty ...

Good news, emoji fans: 56 new characters are officially ready to make their debut. But that doesn't mean the wait is over just yet, as it will take some time before companies will make the update ...

The Unicode Consortium today announced that it is delaying version 14 of the Unicode Standard by six months, and the delay will affect emoji that were scheduled to be included as part of the update.