The symbol will be added to Unicode in its next update, which will likely come out next year. When it does, coders will be able to use the new symbol as they would a U.S. dollar symbol ($) or U.K.

An update to Unicode Standard is now available, and introduces approximately 250 emoji pictographic symbols. The emojis are a part of the Unicode 7.0 software update from Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

An effort to better represent bitcoin as a symbol has been launched. The Unicode Ƀ symbol has been chosen by a website of industry members as a way to better legitimize bitcoin as a symbol both in ...

If you come across a symbol you’ve never seen before, or you want to look up the unicode for a certain symbol, it may be a small challenge to search for it if you’re not entirely sure of its name.

In putting together my Nebulous Notes macros, I ended up having to choose icons for the buttons that would sit on top of my keyboard. As you can see from my screenshots, I’m using specific Unicode ...

*That must be an interesting tech bureaucracy. http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/full.html "This document reflects proposed Emoji symbols data as ...

A decades-old computer character standard has been updated with a symbol for bitcoin. The Unicode Consortium unveiled Unicode version 10.0 today, which includes the bitcoin "B" symbol. Overall, the ...

Today is World Emoji Day, a clever little commemoration by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge and not the Unicode Consortium that has created and maintained the symbol system in the first place. It ...

TechCrunch has learned of a potentially serious new bug affecting a wide range of Apple devices. During their development work on an international news feed, software engineers at Aloha Browser ...