There have been a variety of Unicode encoding methods over the years, but modern programs dealing with strings will probably be using UTF-8 encoding — and you should too.

But along with its release of the new emoji this week, Unicode explained that it also considers user data as a key factor in the emoji selection process, including how people are using existing emoji.

While Unicode offers incredible support for making the hundreds of languages used around the web every day possible and, dare we say, even somewhat straightforward, there are some warts.