The Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium, a non-profit that oversees emoji standards and is responsible for new releases, said it's delaying its new batch of emojis by six months from March to September 2021 because of fallouts from coronavirus.

统一码联盟是一家非营利性机构，监督emoji标准，并负责发布新品。该联盟说受新冠病毒影响，新一批emoji将推迟6个月发布，从2021年3月推迟到9月。

It builds on Unicode [ Unicode Consortium technical report and ISO standard] to define strict rules for text format as well as the DTD validation language.

它构建于Unicode[Unicode Consortium技术报告和ISO标准]基础之上，可定义严格的文本格式规则以及DTD验证语言。

Unicode decided to take on emoji after problems emerged in understanding Japanese e-mails filled with the symbols, Mark Davis, co-founder of the consortium and a software architect for Google, told The Wall Street Journal.

该联盟创始人之一、谷歌软件构架师马克·戴维斯在接受《华尔街日报》采访时表示，当看到一封充满表情符号、难以理解的日文邮件时，统一码联盟决定解决这个难题，为表情符号编码。

As it turns out, emoji are largely controlled by a nonprofit group called the Unicode Consortium, formed by computer programmers in the 1980s. The consortium designed the Unicode Standard, a coding system to fit worldwide platforms and various languages.

事实上，表情符号主要由非营利性组织统一码联盟掌控。该组织由一批电脑程序员创立于上世纪八十年代，曾设计出适用于世界各地的网络平台以及多种语言的编码系统&统一码标准。

The Unicode consortium, the body that decides global standards for emoji, said 33 existing characters would be altered to allow smartphone users to pick between male and female options.

统一码协会是决定世界通用表情符号的机构，该机构表示智能手机用户将有33个可选男女的角色表情符号。

In response to the DoSometing.org petition, an Apple spokesperson last month told MTV that "we have been working closely with the Unicode Consortium in an effort to update the standard. There needs to be more diversity in the emoji character set."

上个月针对“有所作为网”上的请愿书，苹果公司的一名发言人在接受MTV音乐电视网采访时表示：“我们正在与统一码联盟进行紧密合作，努力更新已有标准。表情字符集确实需要多样化。”

Emoji on Apple products are designed by the Unicode consortium.

苹果产品的emoji表情都是由Unicode联盟设计的。

There are others ( UTF-16 and UTF-32, for example) defined by the Unicode consortium, but UTF-8 is the best supported encoding for international character sets.

Unicode协会还规定了其他一些编码方式（如UTF-16，UTF-32），但UTF-8是国际字符集支持得最好的一种。