For emoji lovers, it’s the most wonderful time of the year: when we learn the latest batch of emoji likely to end up on our phones and tablets in the coming months. But this year’s candidates look a ...

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 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 ...