The new emojis include a trombone, a treasure chest, an eyes-bulging face, a fight cloud, an apple core, an orca whale, a gender-neutral ballet dancer, a landslide, and Bigfoot.

Unicode says that it’s currently leaving about 40 percent of people around the globe without the ability to digitally communicate in their native language.

Unicode works by providing the same "codepoint" for each alphabet letter, character or symbol in all supported languages and across all platforms. If a Web site is presented in Unicode, newer ...

Apple offers robust support in macOS for Unicode, a standard that provides a unique number to represent characters and symbols. Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for ...

Two activists want the Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language handshape for "I love you" to Unicode 9.

The forthcoming Mac version of Microsoft's Office suite will be localized for several more languages as well as pick up improved proofing tools. However, Mac language blogers complain that there's ...

If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the ...

Computers set up with the English language only use the characters standard to the English language. Unicode lets you use extended characters, such as carriage return and tabs and characters used ...

While the Rohingya people have experienced a violent oppression in Myanmar, they could be getting a new tool to preserve their cultural identity: a digital language. The Unicode Consortium, the ...