"This document reflects proposed Emoji symbols data as shown in FDAM8 which includes the disposition of FPDAM8 ballot comments and changes agreed during the San José WG2 meeting 56.

Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web, Mark Davis, Google's senior international software architect, said in a blog post.

Displaying Unicode in Notepad. If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, ... A UTF-8 character is also a Unicode character that consists of 8 bytes.

Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for scientific notation, emoji, and other kinds of marks. The standard currently includes nearly 150,000 unique characters, each with its own ...

Gold-level sponsors—just one per symbol—get all that and a hyperlink on the website. There’ll be no platinum award level allowing businesses to add their corporate logo to Unicode, though.

There are emoji everywhere these days -- but creating them doesn't come cheap, and now, says the Unicode Consortium, it's time to pay up.

The Unicode Consortium unveiled Unicode version 10.0 today, which includes the bitcoin "B" symbol. Overall, the update includes 8,518 characters, along with 56 new emojis. STORY CONTINUES BELOW ...

Unicode 16.0 adds a total of 5,185 characters, including hieroglyphs, arrows, and the Garaic script used in West Africa. The newly added (PDF file) arrows are on a yellow background. Below are ...