Every September, the Unicode Consortium releases a new version of its universal character standard – and buried inside its dense technical documentation is something the whole internet pays attention to: new emojis. Unicode 18.0 is due in September 2026, and the draft proposal list is already live. Here’s your complete guide to what might be coming.
There are at least seven distinct dash characters in Unicode—and most people use only one of them, the humble hyphen-minus. It’s the default, the easy choice, and often, the wrong one. Whether you’re trying to indicate a range of numbers or a sudden break in thought, using the correct horizontal stroke is a mark of a writer who knows their craft.
By admin Published on April 18, 2026 Category Characters
In this article What is a missing glyph? The tofu problem (□) Fallback fonts & the font stack Combining characters Emoji rendering issues OS & version fragmentation How to fix it – for users & developers TL;DR cheat sheet Section 01 What Is a Missing Glyph? Unicode defines over 150,000 characters. No single font on […]
By admin Published on April 10, 2026 Category Characters
Before Unicode: Pure Chaos, Imagine you’re writing a letter in 1989. You type on a French computer, your colleague opens the file on a Japanese machine, and half the letters turn into random symbols. This happened all the time. The root cause was simple: there was no agreement on which number represents which letter. ASCII covered 128 characters — enough for English, but it left the rest of the world out in the cold.
By admin Published on March 27, 2026 Category Characters, Emojis
Unicode, the universal character encoding standard that allows computers to represent and process text in virtually any language, has reached a significant milestone with the release of Version 16.0. This latest update introduces a wealth of new characters, emoji, and enhancements designed to support even more diverse scripts and writing systems around the world. New […]
By admin Published on September 16, 2024 Category Characters, Emojis
Unicode have released the latest version of the Unicode Standard. This is a minor update which was released on the 12th September 2023. Included in this update, there has been 627 new characters added, which brings the total numbers of characters to 149,813. In addition to the extra characters, there has been 28 new emojis […]
By admin Published on September 17, 2023 Category Characters, Emojis
If you've ever spent way too long scrolling through font options, you're not alone. Google Fonts is a free, open-source library with over 1,000 high-quality typefaces — and while that's great news for designers and developers, it can also feel pretty overwhelming. To save you the headache, we've put together a list of the 10 […]
By admin Published on September 16, 2023 Category Characters
For those who are passionate about the digital world, the announcement of a new version of Unicode is a moment filled with excitement and anticipation. Unicode, the universal standard for text and emoji encoding on all computing devices, has been instrumental in shaping the digital communication landscape since its inception. The upcoming Unicode Version 16 […]
By admin Published on September 9, 2023 Category Characters, Emojis
Before we dive into emoji modifiers, it's worth taking a quick step back to appreciate just how far emojis have come. Emojis are the small, expressive pictorial symbols we use every day to add colour, emotion, and personality to our digital messages. They first emerged in Japan in the late 1990s, initially as a simple […]
Unicode characters are something most of us take for granted. We see them every day — letters, punctuation, symbols — and rarely stop to think about what else they might be capable of. But tucked inside the Unicode standard is a surprisingly rich creative playground, one that artists, designers, and everyday communicators have been quietly […]
By admin Published on August 26, 2023 Category Characters
