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

Once the Unicode Consortium decides on a final candidate list in September, the finalists will make their way to your devices starting in late 2021 and throughout 2022.

Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird.

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

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