The Unicode Consortium is a non-profit that develops software internationalization standards and data. Emoji 5.0 includes new smileys, foods, drinks, flags and people.

Unicode includes a render command past which other data can be bundled but not rendered, and exploiting that effectively allows users to create hidden messages within Unicode characters.

838 new characters bring Unicode’s total to a whopping 144,697. 838 new characters bring Unicode’s total to a whopping 144,697. ... since some transgender and non-binary people can be pregnant.