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.

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.

Encoding and displaying characters from different languages used to mean working between multiple different formatting systems within the same project. Even though the introduction of Unicode ...

You may have heard that 250 more emojis, the little smiley face icons and other symbols you can send in text messages, are coming to a cellphone near you. The story of the emoji starts in Japan in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google is working on improvements to Chrome OS’s virtual keyboard, including a new dark theme, Unicode 14 emoji, and the ability to type while using Linux apps. For over a year now, Google has been ...