A bug discovered in Apple's Messages app can paralyze your iPhone or iPad with just a simple black dot. All it takes is one user to send a message containing the peculiar black dot emoji for your ...

This is a general overview of how text gets transformed from raw bytes to a glyph on the screen. The document is catered towards explaining niche concepts while also providing some pitfalls to avoid.

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.

An old domain parsing loophole could make browsers like Chrome and Firefox vulnerable to undetectable phishing attacks, according to a recent report. Discovered by Xudong Zheng, a web application ...

GhostText is a steganographic tool that hides secret messages inside regular text by replacing certain Latin characters with visually identical Unicode homoglyphs. The result is a text that looks ...

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...