Unicode, the character-encoding standard that underpins a vast amount of the Internet and many computing applications, has been updated to include an additional 250 “emoji” and several other updates.

The emojification of your online emotional life is complete. The Unicode Consortium announced Unicode Standard Version 9.0 on Tuesday, complete with 72 new emoji characters—the most important of which ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized Unicode 14.0, adding a total of 838 new characters to the standard, which dictates how text and other written characters are handled in most of the world's ...