In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall.

Displaying Unicode in Notepad. If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters.

The distorted face emoji won for the Most Anticipated Emoji for 2025, and the melting face (🫠) emoji won the Lifetime Achievement Award. The melting face emoji is now the youngest emoji to receive ...

Ska heads have been waiting for this: A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji ...

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.

Even though the introduction of Unicode technically solved this problem, you can still encounter situations in which some or all of your Unicode characters will not display properly in Java programs.

Unicode's is adding new emoji options to its standard this fall, including what looks like a Bigfoot emoji.

The Unicode Consortium has finalized version 15.1 of the Unicode standard this week. Although Unicode is used to display tens of thousands of characters in languages used worldwide, the headlining ...

Twitter's new logo, 𝕏, is a Unicode character that's been used in math notation and textbooks for decades, one researcher said.

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.

A malicious Python package on PyPI uses Unicode as an obfuscation technique to evade detection while stealing and exfiltrating developers' account credentials and other sensitive data from ...