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

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.

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 ...

Unicode 9 is the latest update to the Unicode standard, which includes the standard set of emoji available for all operating systems and platforms to use. We knew we could expect them in late June ...

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.