Get ready to sprinkle a few extra "zany faces" 🤪 and "fist bump" 👊 symbols into your texts -- today is World Emoji Day ...

Apple Inc. removed the Taiwanese flag emoji from some iPhones, ... Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, whose Democratic Progressive Party supports independence, ...

Last year, I wrote about how emoji-coder Unicode added 230 emoji, such as a banjo and kite, but neglected to include the trans pride flag.That was rectified this year: A trans flag emoji has now ...

Don't expect to see new flags in your phone's emoji any time soon. The Unicode Consortium has warned it will "no longer accept proposals" for flag emoji, regardless of category. They're more ...

He says that the trans pride flag emoji’s proposals in 2017 and 2018 didn’t include enough evidence that the emoji would be used. The trans community is speaking up about Unicode’s silence.

The submission window for Emoji 16.0 proposals will be open from April 4 through July 31, but Unicode will not process any new flag emoji proposals, the consortium said in a blog post Monday.

LGBTQ inclusivity in emoji platforms has been a subject of debate for a long time, and it appears like that journey is far from over since the bisexual pride flag will not be included in 2021’s ...

The LGBTQ friendly and gender-inclusive emoji coming to smartphones in 2020. Emojipedia While gendered emojis have been around since the first ones came to iPhones in 2008 and Android in 2012, the ...

T he flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria.