The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria.

The group spent some time discussing the technicalities before coming up with the idea of using the Zero Width Joiner, which allows you to combine different emoji — a blank flag and a rainbow ...

The next lowest number of emoji recommendations – 31 – was Emoji 15.0 back in September 2022. Assuming all eight are approved, Emoji 16.0 will bring the total number of emojis that are widely ...