Emoji for Unicode: Open Source Data for the Encoding Proposal - Google

Emoji for Unicode. Emoji (絵文字) is popular among Japanese cell phone users. Last month Apple announced iPhone 2.2 firmware update, included support for Japanese emoji icons.

There are active, on-going efforts to standardize a complete set of emoji as regular symbols characters in Unicode. This involves determining which symbols are already covered in Unicode, and which new symbols would be needed. We're trying to help this effort along by sharing all of our mapping data and tools in the form of the "emoji4unicode" open source project. The goal is more effective collaboration with other members of the Unicode Consortium and review by the cell phone carriers and other interested parties.

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Emoji for Unicode: Open Source Data for the Encoding Proposal (Open Source at Google)