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 ...

Twitter’s new logo is a Unicode character from a math alphabets subset. The previous logo was refined over more than a decade and heavily regulated online. The “Twitter X” dates back to 2001 as part ...

Version 16.0 of the Unicode standard has been released, adding 3,995 new hieroglyphs and seven new emojis, bringing the total number of characters defined in the Unicode standard to 154,998. The ...

The Bitcoin Foundation is looking for volunteers for its Standards Committee, which will be tasked with creating and adopting a bitcoin Unicode symbol. This committee will also examine denomination ...