Unicode and emoji
Unicode y emoji
- Date
- 1991-1999 · confidence high
- Place
- Unicode Consortium, Mountain View, California, United States; emoji from NTT DoCoMo, Tokyo (1999)
- Credited to
- Joe Becker, Lee Collins and Mark Davis (Unicode); Shigetaka Kurita (emoji, NTT DoCoMo)
- People
- 👤 Joe Becker👤 Lee Collins1988–2021👤 Shigetaka1972–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A single standard that encodes every writing system in the world, to which the emoji pictograms born on Japanese mobile phones were added in 2010. It made the internet multilingual and visual.
What it led to
- Multilingual software and the web, and the preservation of minority scripts
- Emoji as the lingua franca of messaging
- Cultural debates over representation in pictograms
Built on
- ASCII
- national character encodings (JIS, ISO 8859)
Made possible
- global messaging
- multilingual keyboards
- emoji