Jeremy Burge

Unicode meets next week for UTC151: the quarterly Unicode Technical Committee meeting where upcoming proposals are discussed. On the emoji agenda this month are a number of new items, namely the Emoji 5.0 updates which contains the final 2017 emoji [https://blog.emojipedia.org/final-2017-emoji-list/] list. While the emoji

The Unicode Consortium [http://unicode.org] celebrated its 25th anniversary last year. The truth is that despite all the work Unicode does to ensure text from languages around the world work — most of us know Unicode as the group that approves new emojis. What might not be so clear is

A question asked with frequency [https://twitter.com/search?q=black%20family%20emojis] online is why there aren't any emojis for black families. In fact, aside from redheads [https://blog.emojipedia.org/utc-provides-feedback-on-redhead-emoji/], emojis for black families are some of the most requested from Emojipedia users.[1] There

After months of work aligning Unicode 10.0 [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-10.0/] code points with new features in Emoji 5.0 [http://emojipedia.org/emoji-5.0/], the 2017 emoji list [http://emojipedia.org/emoji-5.0/] is now final.[1] These include smileys, people, food, drink, flags, and for the

In the past, emoji updates were often referred to like this: > "There are 72 new emojis to be released in 2016, as part of Unicode 9.0 [http://emojipedia.org/unicode-9.0/]." This made sense, as the Unicode Consortium [http://unicode.org] releases a list of new

With The Emoji Movie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emoji_Movie] coming to cinemas this year, it's an interesting time to consider who, if anyone, owns "emoji", and what that even means[1]. When it comes to the topic of emoji and ownership, two questions

Unicode president Mark Davis today announced [https://twitter.com/mark_e_davis/status/824672697871327232] that flags of England [http://emojipedia.org/flag-for-england/], Scotland [http://emojipedia.org/flag-for-scotland/], and Wales [http://emojipedia.org/flag-for-wales/] have been approved as part of the forthcoming Emoji 5.0 [http://emojipedia.org/emoji-5.0/] standard.

Redheads are on the agenda at the next Unicode Technical Committee meeting, hosted by Apple next week. A new proposal (PDF) [http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2017/17011-redhead-emoji-options.pdf][1] from the Emoji Subcommittee seeks to clarify which approach Unicode would prefer to take when it comes to implementing a

The Google design team were months ahead of Apple with new emoji in the past year. Support for the latest emojis came to Android in the major Nougat release in August of 2016. Yet the vast majority of Android users still can't see these new emojis [http://emojipedia.

Sigh. You're there on your trusty phone that does not support the latest Android, or iOS. Or your Mac from 2010 that just won't die. What's the problem? This is: Everyone is upgrading their phones, loving the new emojis, and you're seeing

The latest episode [http://podcast.emojiwrap.com/episodes/54857-5-emoji-dictator-of-the-world] of the Emoji Wrap podcast is out now [http://podcast.emojiwrap.com/episodes/54857-5-emoji-dictator-of-the-world], with special guest Paul Hunt, a font designer from Adobe: > "Custom emoji fonts, :hedgehog:, Clippy, the difference between gender neutral and gender inclusive, and what