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.

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 ...

A phishing campaign targeting Booking.com users relies on a technique involving the ambiguity of Unicode characters.

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 ...

Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird.

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 ...

Even though the introduction of Unicode technically solved this problem, you can still encounter situations in which some or all of your Unicode characters will not display properly in Java programs.

Because of the delay, the Unicode Consortium is accepting new emoji character proposals for the Emoji 14 update until September 2020.