In front of Unicode 12.0 released on March 5, 2019, the data file of " Unicode Emoji 12.0" which put only registered emoticons was released on February 5. According to the non-profit organization " ...

It is an organization that has established character codes on a global scaleUnicode ConsortiumIs the latest versionUnicode 7.0It was revealed that 250 kinds of emoticons are included in it. Many ...

Forms of communication are evolving and expanding, as evidenced by the incorporation of emoticons and emojis into our written communication. Emoji is a Japanese word used to refer to images or ...

When computer science professor Scott Fahlman posted a sideways smiley face on an electronic message board at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982, he could not possibly have known that combination of ...

Emoji — the pictogram prodigy of text-based emoticons — can be found everywhere. In less than two decades, the ideograms of modern times have become internet shorthand for emotion: They encapsulate ...

Last spring, a U.S. District Court judge in Michigan was asked to rule on the meaning of “:-P.” The case concerned a University of Michigan law student who was investigated by local cops after a ...

You’ve heard about the words of the year—Oxford’s vape, Merriam-Webster’s culture, and Dictionary.com’s exposure, to name a few. And perhaps you’re even eagerly awaiting the American Dialect Society’s ...

It started with a bet. Back in Twitter's salad days, sometime in 2009, net art gadfly Ryder Ripps boasted to a friend that the microblogging service was "easy" and claimed he could rack up 10,000 ...