The Unicode Consortium website lists 12 full members – which all get a vote – including big players in tech: Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and Adobe.

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

Unicode is responsible for bringing out new emoji with every version it releases. Unicode 8.0 added the unicorn and thinking face, while Unicode 9.0 featured the addition of bacon and an avocado ...

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that string ...

What’s also notable about the above list is that the Unicode Consortium has been working on it longer than usual. In 2020, the organization delayed the release of Unicode 14.0 due to the pandemic.