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You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are some of the most popular emoji as of the beginning of September. The list changes periodically, so what's popular now might ...
The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...
There have been a variety of Unicode encoding methods over the years, but modern programs dealing with strings will probably be using UTF-8 encoding — and you should too.
A proposal to add a bisexual pride flag emoji was rejected by Unicode, but many people are continuing the fight to have the bi flag added.
The Unicode standard is a numbering system; fonts require individual drawings to represent characters.
Twitter’s new logo is a Unicode character from a math alphabets subset. The previous logo was refined over more than a decade and heavily regulated online. The “Twitter X” dates back to 2001 ...
The laugh-cry emoji, or 😂, is the most-used emoji in the world, according the Unicode Consortium. In fact, the 10 most-used emoji haven't changed much since 2019. The consortium, which votes on ...
Uh oh! Another Unicode attack is messing up a popular messaging platform. This time it’s Apple’s own Messages app being hit by what has come to be called the “Black Dot” bug. We know ...
Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts.
The Unicode Consortium released a report of the most popular emojis for the first time, which informs what new emoji the group decides to add.
Unicode's is adding new emoji options to its standard this fall, including what looks like a Bigfoot emoji.