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 ...

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… ...

The Unicode standard is a numbering system; fonts require individual drawings to represent characters.

iOS: Unicode-created emoji might be hot shit now, but they’re no help when you need to access more obscure punctuation marks, accented characters, and currency symbols in a document or totally ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced version 7.0 of the Unicode character-encoding standard, bringing an additional 2,834 new characters and 250 new emojis to its already extensive character set.

The new standard brings users 838 new Unicode characters, including five new scripts. Version 14 also has 37 new emojis, including handshakes and heart hands, a melting face, pointing fingers ...

This is supposed to be simple but I must be a bloody idiot.How can I get the unicode value (e.g. 0xFFFD) of a given char?By extension, how can I get the GB or Big-5 encoding? (I'm guessing this ...

The Unicode Consortium says that Unicode "can encode up to roughly 1.1 million characters, allowing it to support all of the world’s languages and scripts in a single, universal standard" and ...