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The Unicode Consortium (legally Unicode, Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated and based in Mountain View, California, U.S. [4] Its primary purpose is to maintain and publish the Unicode Standard which was developed with the intention of replacing existing character encoding schemes that are limited in size and scope, and are incompatible with multilingual environments.
The Unicode Consortium together with the ISO have developed a shared repertoire following the initial publication of The Unicode Standard: Unicode and the ISO's Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) use identical character names and code points. However, the Unicode versions do differ from their ISO equivalents in two significant ways.
ICU is widely portable to many operating systems and environments. It gives applications the same results on all platforms and between C, C++, and Java software. The ICU project is a technical committee of the Unicode Consortium and sponsored, supported, and used by IBM and many other companies. [2]
The introduction of Unicode emoji created an incentive for vendors to improve their support for non-BMP characters. [85] The Unicode Consortium notes that "[b]ecause of the demand for emoji, many implementations have upgraded their Unicode support substantially", also helping support minority languages that use those features. [84]
Unicode chart single emojis}} provides a list of single Unicode emoji code points. It uses the same style as the Unicode charts but emoji are not contained in a single Unicode block (and there's no Unicode block named "Emoji"). The list only contains singletons: Sequences containing multiple emoji are not shown.
Continuing to make emoji more inclusive, then, isn't just a matter of making texting your friends more fun, according to Paul Hunt, the designer behind Unicode Consortium's first gender-inclusive ...
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 2. ^ Empty areas indicate code points assigned to non-emoticon characters 3. ^ U+263A and U+263B are inherited from Microsoft code page 437 introduced in 1981, although inspired by older systems
Emojipedia is an emoji reference website [1] which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters [2] in the Unicode Standard.Most commonly described as an emoji encyclopedia [3] or emoji dictionary, [4] Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes [5] and usage trends.