The Unicode Consortium
@unicode
Followers
19,478
Following
41
Media
1,607
Statuses
2,673
Enabling 👥 on our 🗺 to use 💻📱 in any language. Press → Emoji →
Mountain View, California, USA
Joined June 2010
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
HAPPY TWENTY FOURTH
• 482603 Tweets
Chelsea
• 123112 Tweets
#ブルアカらいぶおーたむSP
• 122728 Tweets
Liverpool
• 108559 Tweets
God Kabir Increases Age
• 86846 Tweets
#光る君へ
• 82145 Tweets
BUILD TEAM FJR
• 50760 Tweets
ジャニーズ
• 48815 Tweets
ピーコさん
• 46079 Tweets
#海に眠るダイヤモンド
• 41703 Tweets
nayeon
• 40465 Tweets
Wolves
• 30336 Tweets
おすぎとピーコ
• 28345 Tweets
サクラコ
• 23696 Tweets
#LINEMUSICでキンプリ
• 22937 Tweets
リラックマ
• 22598 Tweets
#NHKスペシャル
• 20463 Tweets
オッドストーリー
• 19978 Tweets
CHOOSE TO BE KA-TROPA
• 19436 Tweets
日本シリーズ
• 18808 Tweets
Rangers
• 17619 Tweets
双子の弟
• 16728 Tweets
LMSY TAOBAO LIVE
• 16206 Tweets
日曜劇場
• 14110 Tweets
GenG
• 13574 Tweets
Flyquest
• 11579 Tweets
アイドルマリー
• 10972 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
📢 New sessions are confirmed for UTW 2024! "Behind the Curtains: Unicode Technical Groups” "Encoding Expectations: How Long Does It Really Take?” “Bridging Languages in ICU4X: How Diplomat Brings i18n to the Web and Beyond." Secure your spot:
#UTW2024
7
14
61
Among the 838 new characters in
#Unicode14
are 37 new
#emoji
, along with new emoji sequences, that are expected to show up on 📱s, 💻s, and other platforms sometime next year → #絵文字
105
317
700
214 characters from legacy computers and teletext that were proposed by
@DougEwell
,
@BeckieRGB
, and others in the “Terminals Working Group” in L2/19-025 were just accepted at
#UTC158
for a future version of
#Unicode
→
30
274
512
Unicode introduces 5 new symbols for
#TransNeptunianObjects
into Version 15.0 that come from findings out of
@CalTech
.
@plutokiller
6
71
230
We're excited to announce the 1.0 release of our new internationalization library, ICU4X!
ICU4X is modular, usable on low-resource devices, and can be used in many environments including Rust, C++, and JavaScript.
Read more here:
8
62
206
#Unicode12_1
は #新元号＃令和 の合字 U+32FF「SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA」一文字を加え、総文字数 137,929 個となります →
#Reiwa
🇯🇵
2
208
200
Adopt a character and help Unicode advance our mission to support the world’s languages. Gold, silver, and bronze level character adoptions are still available for your sweetie for
#ValentinesDay
at
#UnicodeAdoptaCharacter
❣️💘😘🫀❤️🔥💋💝
5
9
147
✨🎉✨
#Unicode14
has been released! ✨❤️🔥✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 144,697! ✨🍾✨ More information can be found here →
17
81
157
The 4,489 new characters in
#Unicode15
include 20 new
#emoji
, along with new emoji sequences, expected to show up on 📱s, 💻s, and other platforms sometime next year → #絵文字
21
56
161
NEW EVENT on July 13th! Just in time for
#WorldEmojiDay
, join this special conversation with our very own
@jenniferdaniel
and
@annequito
from
@qz
to learn How Emoji and Language Play Together in our World. Register here:
🎷🐛
4
39
145
#Kawi
and
#NagMundari
are the two newly-encoded scripts in
#Unicode15
, thanks to the efforts of Aditya Bayu Perdana,
@inurwansah
, and
@Biswaji13480606
→
3
67
154
Adopt a character and help Unicode advance our mission to support the world’s languages. Gold, silver, and bronze level character adoptions are still available for
#yearoftiger
at
#UnicodeAAC
🐯寅🧧🧨🐅虎
1
8
133
Unicode Version 15.1 will include 118 new RGI
#emoji
ZWJ sequences, 108 of which are directional variants of existing emoji, and are expected to start showing up on 📱s, 💻s, and other platforms sometime early next year → #絵文字
#Unicode15_1
15
43
137
✨🍾✨
#Unicode13
has been released! ✨🎉✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 143,859! ✨🥳✨ More information can be found here →
11
94
138
✨🎉✨ Unicode Version 16.0 has been released! ✨🧨✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 154,998! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here →
#Unicode16
11
68
132
Other character additions in Unicode Version 16.0 include seven new emoji, 3,995 additional Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and over 700 additional symbols from legacy computing environments → #絵文字
#Unicode16
4
45
128
92% of the world’s online population use emoji — but which emoji are we using?
#UnicodeEmojiMirror
22
45
106
✨🎉✨
#Unicode11
is here! ✨🍾✨ Bringing the total number of
#Unicode
characters to 137,374. ✨🎉✨ More information here →
9
64
106
Among the 5,185 new characters in Unicode Version 16.0 are those for the newly-supported
#Garay
,
#GurungKhema
,
#KiratRai
,
#OlOnal
,
#Sunuwar
,
#Todhri
, and
#TuluTigalari
scripts →
#Unicode16
8
48
112
✨🎉✨
#Unicode15
has been released! ✨🪩✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 149,186! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here →
8
56
100
4,192 new ideographs as shown in IRG N2513 were accepted during
#UTC169
for encoding in the new CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H block (U+31350 through U+323AF) for
#Unicode15
.
7
40
97
The five newly-encoded scripts in
#Unicode14
are
#CyproMinoan
,
#OldUyghur
,
#Tangsa
,
#Toto
, and
#Vithkuqi
, thanks to the efforts of
@sei_berkeley
,
@anshumanpandey_
,
@Evertype
, and others →
3
30
89
✨🥳✨
#Unicode12
has been unleashed! ✨🎉✨ Bringing the total number of
#Unicode
characters to 137,929! ✨🍾✨ More information here →
5
56
90
Our profile’s background image, which was previously blank, is an excerpt from
@Bathyporeia
’s superb photo of the
#RosettaStone
that is available in
@Wikipedia
Commons, and shows the Egyptian hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts. © Hans Hillewaert / CC BY-SA 4.0
31
16
83
Are you ready for 7 new scripts and nearly 700 new characters? The 7 new scripts in
#Unicode11
are
#HanifiRohingya
,
#OldSogdian
,
#Sogdian
,
#Dogra
,
#GunjalaGondi
,
#Makasar
&
#Medefaidrin
, thanks to the efforts of
@anshumanpandey_
& others →
12
35
81
The Unicode Consortium would like to welcome a new Technical Director, Roozbeh Pournader:
8
9
81
We are pleased to announce that the “Last Resort” and “Last Resort High-Efficiency” fonts were updated for Unicode Version 14.0 earlier today, which involved two modified glyphs, 12 new glyphs, 838 mapping changes, and 13 glyph name changes.
2
35
79
#Unicode12
reached a milestone by encoding 150 scripts. The four newly-encoded scripts are
#Elymaic
,
#Nandinagari
,
#NyiakengPuachueHmong
&
#Wancho
, thanks to the efforts of
@anshumanpandey_
&
@Evertype
→
4
23
68
A 2020 grant from
@NEHgov
has made it possible to continue the Unicode
#Maya
project to preserve
#Maya
#hieroglyphs
in digital form →
3
19
64
🫣。🫧。🥹。🥲
。🫗 。👀。🫶🏿
✨。＼｜／。😶🌫️
Happy World
Emoji Day
🫡。／｜＼。❤️🩹
。🫂。 🫠。🫦。
🫰🏻。 ❤️🔥。 🪸 😵
6
23
65
The special-purpose “Last Resort” font, which can be used to display
#Unicode
characters using specialized glyphs that show their characteristics, is now available on
@github
with an
#OpenSource
license →
1
22
65
✨🎉✨ Unicode Version 15.1 has been released! ✨🧨✨ Bringing the total number of characters to 149,803! ✨🍾✨ Find more information here →
#Unicode15_1
16
34
65
The nine pointed white star, which is a symbol that is used by members of the Bahá’í Faith, is one of the many new characters you will soon find in
#Unicode15
→
5
16
65
The updated 622-ideograph CJK Unified Ideographs
#ExtensionI
block was accepted by the UTC for Unicode Version 15.1 during this week’s
#UTC176
meeting, based on document L2/23-114R and Section 01 of document L2/23-163.
#GB18030
1
19
63
🎉 Happy
#WorldEmojiDay
! 📅 🎉
We’ve redesigned our home page (see the link in our profile) to make it easier to use on mobile devices, and easier to find info of general public interest.
Of course, our more technical resources are still available →
9
18
58
#Unicode12_1
のコード表の「Enclosed CJK Letters and Months」ブロックに #令和 の合字 U+32FF「SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA」とその元となる U+4EE4「令」、U+548C「和」が記述されました → #新元号
#Reiwa
🇯🇵
1
53
52
The bulk of the 627 new characters in
#Unicode15_1
are 622 CJK Unified Ideographs in the new
#ExtensionI
block in Plane 2 →
#CJK
統合漢字
#CJK
统一汉字 #拡張I #扩充I
#GB18030
1
25
55
We have made another trip around our sun, so
#Unicode15
, now with nearly 150,000 characters, will be released very soon →
2
16
54
The more the
#Unicode
Standard operates as building blocks instead of specific concepts, the more versatile, fluid, and useful
#emoji
become. Read about how the pink heart came to be, and why you can expect to find it on your keyboard soon.
#Unicode15
4
15
53
The 4,939 CJK Unified Ideographs in
#ExtensionG
were accepted at
#UTC160
for
#Unicode13
, and will represent the first characters to be encoded in
#Plane3
(aka TIP meaning “Tertiary Ideographic Plane”).
#CJK
統合漢字
#CJK
統合漢字拡張G
3
24
52
Unicode thanks Rothwell Right Angle with Downwards ZigZag Arrow, our newest Bronze Sponsor!
#UnicodeSponsor
6
14
51
#Unicode10
is here at last! 8,518 new characters! 136,690 characters in total! More information can be found here →
1
60
53
The code charts for the main CJK Unified Ideographs block will now support seven columns for accommodating the addition of thousands of KP-source ideographs →
#Unicode15_1
0
23
53
#Unicode14
includes significant Arabic script additions, such as characters used for languages across Africa and in Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Java, and Bosnia, to write honorifics, and additions for Quranic use →
5
14
48
For those who have been patiently waiting,
#Unicode14
, with over 144,000 characters, will be released very soon →
2
20
49
#Unicode12_1
adds exactly one character, U+32FF SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA, bringing the total number of characters to 137,929 → #令和 #新元号
#Reiwa
🇯🇵
#Unicode12_1
は #新元号＃令和 の合字 U+32FF「SQUARE ERA NAME REIWA」一文字を加え、総文字数 137,929 個となります →
#Reiwa
🇯🇵
2
208
200
0
42
47
Also among the 838 new characters in
#Unicode14
are nine CJK Unified Ideographs that have been appended to the URO,
#ExtensionB
, and
#ExtensionC
blocks →
#CJK
統合漢字
1
23
48
Among the 684 new characters in
#Unicode11
are 66 new
#emoji
that may show up on 📱s and 💻s later this year → #絵文字
3
20
47
Unicode Technical Note
#43
, “Unihan Database Property
#kStrange
,” which was written by
@ken_lunde
to document this new provisional Unihan Database property that was accepted for
#Unicode14
, was issued today →
#UTN43
1
27
46
Among the 554 new characters in
#Unicode12
are 61 new
#emoji
that are expected to show up on 📱s, 💻s, and other platforms later this year → #絵文字
7
16
45
🔍💡 NEW EVENT APRIL 16!!! Registration Open: !! Got an emoji idea that's too good to keep to yourself? Join us to learn how to create an emoji proposal with the best chance of being accepted! Ask the experts your questions.
#Unicode
#EmojiCommunity
#AAC
192
7
41
#Unicode11
adds
#Mtavruli
letters to support modern
#Georgian
casing practices, thanks to the efforts of
@Evertype
,
@nikagujejiani
,
@Jilbertaz
&
@razmadzekoko
→ (photo ©
@merabi2008
)
2
16
39
@Unicode
adds
#Indigenous
characters to the Unicode Standard for the Carrier, Sayisi, and Ojibway Syllabics-using communities.
1
19
41
Ken Lunde honored with the 2018 Unicode Bulldog award.
1
10
43
The next version of the
#Unicode
Standard, Version 15.1 with just under 150,000 characters, will be released very soon →
#Unicode15_1
3
9
42
#Unicode11
bridges the digital divide with support for the
#SoutheastAsian
#HanifiRohingya
script, thanks to the efforts of
@anshumanpandey_
→
0
14
38
The bulk of the 4,489 new characters in
#Unicode15
are 4,192 CJK Unified Ideographs in the new
#ExtensionH
block in Plane 3, along with one that has been appended to the
#ExtensionC
block →
#CJK
統合漢字
#CJK
统一汉字 #拡張H #扩充H
2
19
42
#Unicode12
introduced improved representative glyphs for some scripts and characters, such as for the
#Bopomofo
script, and for the Won currency sign, U+20A9 ₩ WON SIGN, to better align with modern practice in Korea → #ㄅㄆㄇㄈ #注音符號 🇰🇷
0
14
40
Among the 8,518 new characters in
#Unicode10
are 56 new
#emoji
that may show up on 📱s and 💻s later this year → #絵文字
5
27
38
Coming Soon: Following the recent announcement of Japan’s new era name,
#Reiwa
, we will be responding quickly by releasing
#Unicode12_1
to support the square ligature form of that name → #令和 #新元号 🇯🇵
0
27
38
New support for the
#African
liturgical script,
#Medefaidrin
, in
#Unicode11
, thanks to the efforts of Andrij Rovenchak, Dafydd Gibbon, Moses Ekpenyong & Eno-Abasi Urua →
0
19
39
3
14
34
The Unicode Consortium would like to welcome a new Technical Director, Dr. Ken Lunde.
2
9
39