Emoji under the hood

 https://tonsky.me/blog/emoji/

A first dive into the somewhat confusing and esoteric technical world behind emoji. 

Google releases open source font Noto to eliminate the tofu problem

http://betanews.com/2016/10/10/google-noto-font/
A free font with ALL #unicode characters? #googlefonts releases Noto font. Still claims fast load time:

Inside “Emojigeddon”: The Fight Over The Future Of The Unicode Consortium

https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/inside-emojigeddon-the-fight-over-the-future-of-the-unicode

I've thought for a while that the unicode guys were getting off-track: