The concept revolves around Unicode's system of representing text as a sequence of codepoints, with each codepoint being a number assigned meaning by the Unicode Consortium. While most users are ...

New characters for Nattilingmiutut mean the language can now be written ... said international standards for letters are governed by the Unicode Technical Committee in California.

But then, neither do you. We're all doing emoji wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong. Good thing the folks at Unicode are here to save us. More on that in a moment. First, back to Swoopie Star.