Now you can adopt emoji to help save the world's smaller languages<article>
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There are emoji everywhere these days—but creating them doesn’t come cheap, and now, says the Unicode Consortium, it’s time to pay up.</p><p>
Of course, the consortium puts it a little more nicely than that: It’s inviting people to sponsor a symbol for a year to help fund its work encoding languages that don’t yet have digital representations.</p><p>
The Unicode developed and promoted by the consortium is composed of thousands of code points, each expressing a relation between a number and a symbol.</p><p>
Those relations allow app developers, font developers and keyboard designers to agree that a given number stored in memory should appear as a given symbol—a particular emoji, say—on the screen, and that the symbol be the same regardless of which device the message is displayed on. If there wasn’t such agreement, then there’s a risk that when an Android user sent
