Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts.

The Unicode standard is a numbering system; fonts require individual drawings to represent characters.

The Unicode Consortium has announced on its blog that it will no longer be accepting proposals for new flags into the Unicode standard.

You have to give the Unicode’s Emoji Subcommittee some credit. As emoji has risen in popularity to become the primary way we express ourselves over text, the Unicode Consortium is burdened with ...

Meet the shadowy overlords who approve emojis The Unicode Consortium is responsible for green-lighting all emojis.