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

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall. ...

The first images have been published of a fresh wave of 250 emoji’s to be added to the current emoticon list for Google, Apple, Twitter et al. Devised by the Unicode Consortium the new list ...

Unicode's is adding new emoji options to its standard this fall, including what looks like a Bigfoot emoji.

An expected version 14 release of the Unicode Standard has been delayed to September 2021 due to COVID-19, the Unicode Consortium announced on Wednesday, meaning new emoji might not reach iPhone ...

As you might notice in the Greek example, there is nothing to help the decoder know which base-36 characters belong to which original Unicode symbol.