The big picture: The Unicode Consortium recently announced the latest Unicode Standard, Version 14. This version brings more than 838 new characters, including 37 emoji characters ranging from biting ...

The range of characters that can be represented by Unicode is truly bewildering. If there’s a symbol that was ever used to represent a sound or a concept anywhere in the world, chances are pretty good ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.

Unicode is a massive, sprawling effort that pairs a number to every unique character in a language, every punctuation mark, every math symbol, and much more. And nearly all of it is available within ...

The Unicode Consortium today announced that it is delaying version 14 of the Unicode Standard by six months, and the delay will affect emoji that were scheduled to be included as part of the update.

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

Unicode lets you display extended characters in your Visual Basic 6 forms. This means that you can display characters, for instance Chinese or Russian letter, in a form that is used by an English user ...

It's easy to mistake an "l" for a "1" or an "I" with a poorly designed typeface. (Ahem.) Fortunately, modern fonts tend to use a variety of techniques to disambiguate those easily confused ...

Have you ever used Twitter, Gmail, or YouTube and noticed odd characters being displayed vertically overlay other text on the page or break out UI boundaries? If so and have wondered how this is ...

Could malicious backdoors be hiding in your code, that otherwise appears perfectly clean to the human eye and text editors alike? A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters can ...