The Unicode standard is a numbering system; fonts require individual drawings to represent characters.

Once the Unicode Consortium decides on a final candidate list in September, the finalists will make their way to your devices starting in late 2021 and throughout 2022.

The Unicode Consortium has announced on its blog that it will no longer be accepting proposals for new flags into the Unicode standard.

Meet the shadowy overlords who approve emojis The Unicode Consortium is responsible for green-lighting all emojis.

The Unicode Consortium website lists 12 full members – which all get a vote – including big players in tech: Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Adobe.

You have to give the Unicode’s Emoji Subcommittee some credit. As emoji has risen in popularity to become the primary way we express ourselves over text, the Unicode Consortium is burdened with ...

A Bitcoin symbol is getting added to a future version of Unicode, a global standard for text on the Web.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that string ...