Version 17.0 of Unicode, the character encoding standard, was released on September 9, 2025. It adds 4,803 new characters, including four new characters and several emojis, bringing the total number ...

Ska heads have been waiting for this: A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) rejoined the Unicode Consortium as a Supporting Member this year, becoming one of just two government members with a vote on the body.

Unicode is a standard for character encoding that can represent a wide variety of characters used around the world. Software engineer Paul Butler explains that Unicode allows users to embed 'secret ...

The latest State of JavaScript survey provides an up-close look at the JavaScript language features, tools, libraries, and frameworks developers are using and how they're using them. Getting a ...

JavaScript is the number one most essential high-income technical skill you can have in your toolkit as a developer You wouldn't be a developer without knowing ...

Visual Studio Code is a code editor that is completely free and open-source. It has been developed by Microsoft and is highly regarded by developers due to its lightweight, fast, and extensible design ...