Jeremy Burge

The latest episode [http://podcast.emojiwrap.com/episodes/45660-2-the-military-is-an-activity] of the Emoji Wrap podcast is out now, with special guest Owen Williams [http://twitter.com/ow/]: > "The pre-iOS 10 episode. Two Owens, Samsung emoji weirdness, iMessage stickers, no love for Apple Watch emoji, iOS 10 redesign, Jumbomoji and

Being part of Unicode, emoji characters are very flexible. With a little bit of imagination, here's some fun emoji ideas that vendors could implement today using existing Unicode functionality. Bold Making an emoji bold does nothing on most (all?) systems right now. Here on my Mac, italic does

Today we're pleased to be launching the Emoji Wrap Podcast [http://podcast.emojiwrap.com]! Hosted by me, Jeremy Burge, I'm joined by a guest (or guests) each episode to chat about all that's been going on in the world of emoji. In the first

In the second major emoji update in 10 months [https://blog.emojipedia.org/android-6-0-1-emoji-changelog/], Google today released [https://android.googleblog.com/2016/08/android-70-nougat-more-powerful-os-made.html] Android 7.0 "Nougat" with a bunch of emoji additions. This latest release adds support for skin tone modifiers, Unicode 9 [http://emojipedia.

Samsung is this week releasing [http://www.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-note-7-review] the Galaxy Note 7, which is the first Samsung phone to include emoji flags [http://emojipedia.org/flags/] for countries around the world. Previous Samsung releases did not support emoji flags, and showed the two-letter country code in their place.

The demand for Emoji Flags for England, Scotland, and Wales [https://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-flags-for-england-scotland-and-wales/] has been acknowledged by Unicode President Mark Davis. In a document titled Alternative Model for Subdivision Flags [http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16234-alt-model-subdiv-flags.pdf] submitted during the Unicode Technical Committee meeting held August 2—

Users of DuckDuckGo [http://duckduckgo.com] may have discovered some Emojipedia integration in recent months. The most obvious feature is this: Type any emoji into DuckDuckGo to find out what it means, without even leaving the site. This feature was developed by Mathew Byrne [https://twitter.com/mathewbyrne] and uses

A document [http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16183-rainbow-flag.pdf] describing how vendors can implement a Rainbow Flag Emoji has today been published. This document, written by Mark Davis and the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee[1], details a sequence that vendors can use to support a pride flag emoji [http://emojipedia.

Today is July 17 which means one thing: World Emoji Day! There's a lot to celebrate. First of all, thanks to Jonathan Mann who produced the first World Emoji Day anthem which might just get stuck in your head all day: *🎶 Everybody uses emoji; Emojis are for all

Not all emojis are equal. It's not obvious from looking at them, but some emojis are more than they seem. While most emojis are not dissimilar to a © symbol or the letter Q in the Unicode Standard; others are created by joining multiple emojis together behind the scenes.

A proposal [http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16180-eng-scot-wales-flags.pdf] for emoji flags of England, Scotland and Wales has been submitted to the Unicode Consortium in anticipation of the next Unicode Technical Committee meeting in August 2016. I co-authored this proposal with Owen Williams [https://twitter.com/OwsWills/], which seeks

With new emojis released as part of Unicode 9 last week [https://blog.emojipedia.org/unicode-9-0-released-with-72-new-emojis/], many are looking for a timeline of when these will be available on various platforms such as iOS, Android, and Windows. If you have been searching for when the new emojis will come to