However, perhaps with 18.2 later in the year, or 18.3 or 18.4 early next year we’ll finally get our hands on the exhausted emoji we all deserve. For reference, iOS 17.4 was the release that ...

Emoji presented a new and unique dilemma to Unicode. “With most text, you don’t have things being invented left, right, and center,” says Peter Constable, the vice-president of Unicode.

Emoji users respect linear time and action. If you want to point a gun at something, it has to go to the left of the barrel, he says. It is this: Not this: ...