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.

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.

He worked with Emojination, which advocates for more inclusive emoji, to submit the proposal to Unicode, the universal standard bearer for emoji, in March 2018.

According to Unicode, this is the emoji we use the most Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for.

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.

Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird.

The symbol for your favorite cured pork product, along with 71 other characters, is coming out in the next version of Unicode.