Unicode Consortium
Standards body that encodes emoji characters
Episodes
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#5488: How Emoji Went From 176 Characters to 3,600From a 176-character set built for Japanese pagers to a 3,600-character Unicode standard — and why your emoji breaks in production. -
#3001: Why Every Flag Is a Rectangle (Except One)How maritime warfare and mass production made nearly every national flag a rectangle — and why Nepal's stubbornly isn't. -
#2593: The Politics of Unicode: Paleo-Hebrew, Han Unification, and Who Decides What a Character IsWhat it takes to build a custom keyboard for an ancient biblical script, from Unicode politics to font design. -
#1600: The Digital Tofu Crisis: Saving the World’s ScriptsWhy does Bigfoot have an emoji while millions can’t type in their native script? Explore the hidden battle to save the world's writing systems.