The viewer lets you match against characters you type, but also against any part of any name of a Unicode entity. For instance, type “recycling” and you’ll see all the recycling symbols ...

A new draft proposal published Tuesday at the Unicode Consortium outlines a way of diversifying the mostly white people who populate your emoji keyboard. The system, presented by Google software ...

After months of anticipation and (apparently) some debate, 72 new emoji characters are officially on their way to smartphones everywhere as part of Unicode 9.0. The emoji keyboard update ...

So although Unicode 9 is scheduled for release later this month, the emoji contained within the update won’t be immediately available on, say, your iPhone, or within WhatsApp, or on Gchat ...