Unicode’s emoji set has been adopted by major companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, as well as major programming languages like Java and XML among others.

"Any Unicode character can be presented with text presentation," states the proposal, while emoji presentation is currently up for interpretation by the artist employed by the app or platform ...

Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for. Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The ...