Before Unicode, different countries or language groups had their own text encoding standards. The problem became apparent to end users with the widespread introduction of the World Wide Web.

Emoji don’t appear out of nowhere. They’re managed by a governing body of the internet known as the Unicode Consortium, which sets encoding standards for characters so that they appear mostly ...

Like everything else, the Unicode Consortium has had a wrench 🔧 thrown into its regimented schedule by the novel coronavirus. 😷 Unicode, which oversees text-encoding standards across ...