Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) has written a blog post reflecting on a recent news item she reported in Hyperallergic discussing the proposed addition of over 2,000 hieroglyphs into Unicode.
In “The Gospel of Unicode: Digital Love Letter(s) and Art Through Numbers,” Bond gives a brief introduction into the development of Unicode and its use by academics, noting that “the creation of Unicode not only lead to the standardization of emoji (for which most people know it), it revolutionized the fields of Classics and Digital Humanities by allowing for movement from the stone to the screen in a standardized manner.” Bond also highlights its role in text encoding with the TEI.
