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.

Displaying Unicode in Notepad. If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters.

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.

A Bitcoin symbol is getting added to a future version of Unicode, a global standard for text on the Web.

Smartphone users around the world are anxiously waiting for developers to make the latest batch of emojis from the Unicode 11.0 update available on their phones. Select Android users are already ...

Bringing a new emoji to life involves thousand-word proposals, multiple rounds of committee votes and rare collaboration between rivals.

There's a likely chance you've already heard about all the new emojis that are included within Unicode 11.0; redheads, lobsters, mangos, bagels, and llamas are just a few of my favorites. And if ...

If Unicode had chosen traditionally female-dominated — and thus easily identifiable — jobs, like nurses, teachers or secretaries, the backlash likely would have been powerful.