There's a vocabulary update for Unicode, the standard for the characters (letters, numbers, symbols, etc.) we use on our computers and gadgets all over the world, ensuring that everyone is using ...

An update to Unicode Standard is now available, and introduces approximately 250 emoji pictographic symbols. The emojis are a part of the Unicode 7.0 software update from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

The average keyboard only has so many characters labeled on it for use. Beyond that, there are plenty of other symbols and punctuation that are worth using, yet have no home on a Chromebook’s QWERTY ...

Unicode has been the default standard for representation and handling of text. Emoji, as a text-based representation of emotions, have been a part of Unicode ever since 2010 from the release of ...

You know Unicode symbols, right? The ones you might find in tweets from time to time, or in links from Daring Fireball and Shawn Blanc’s website. Yes, these symbols. It turns out, they’re pretty cute.

Whether you want to add a little personality to your tweets or include special characters in your notes, there’s no easy way to copy Unicode symbols on iOS. While I’ve covered my fair share of iOS ...

Today is World Emoji Day, a clever little commemoration by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge and not the Unicode Consortium that has created and maintained the symbol system in the first place. It ...

*That must be an interesting tech bureaucracy. http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/full.html "This document reflects proposed Emoji symbols data as ...

TechCrunch has learned of a potentially serious new bug affecting a wide range of Apple devices. During their development work on an international news feed, software engineers at Aloha Browser ...

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