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.

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 ...

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 ...

LabVIEW doesn't provide official Unicode support under Windows, but through a combination of hidden control properties, byte order marks, and good luck, it is possible to read and display Unicode text ...

Earlier today, Ars IT editor Sean Gallagher was doing some scary things with wireless when he discovered someone probing for a Wi-Fi network with a name that appeared to be something un-parseable. I ...

Apple says today it has a fix in the works for an odd software bug that has been able to crash users’ iPhones when they receive a text message with a specific string of characters. The bug, which ...

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 ...

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 ...