Emoji for Unicode: Open Source Data for the Encoding ProposalThe latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects, events, and student outreach programs. By Markus Scherer, Google Internationalization Engineering Emoji (絵文字), or "picture characters", the graphical versions of :-) and its friends, are widely used and especially popular among Japanese cell phone users. Just last month, they became available in Gmail ― see the team's announcemen
