Re: Coding the Lobster

The importance of emoji for marketing and cultural identity continues to rise. (And why not Zoidberg?)

The Unicode Consortium administers how every script in the world — including ones for dead languages — wind up represented as specific slots in a list of characters to which operating systems refer. This list, a mapping, allows someone in Katmandu to type a character on a Windows machine that, after it winds its way through the æther around the globe, appears the same on an Android display in Hoboken.