9to5Mac

‘Black dot’ bug is the latest Unicode text handling flaw to crash iPhone and iPads, works on iOS 11.3 and iOS 11.4

A new Unicode text bug is being spread around today, popularised by a video by EverythingApplePro. It’s being called the ‘black dot’ bug because of its origins on Android as a bug relating to WhatsApp ...
Ars Technica

Text Encoding Formats: ASCII, Unicode, what else?

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 ...

How To Do Different Fonts On Facebook: Yes You Can - Here's What You Should Do

Facebook doesn't support custom fonts, but users can stylise posts with Unicode text converters like YayText or LingoJam for ...

A new default text editor is coming soon to Windows 11

The latest news is that Edit will soon be the default text editor in the Windows 11 Command Prompt, as noted by Windows ...
Mashable

'Black dot of death' is crashing iMessage, and there's only one way to fix it

Apparently we live in a universe where crashing your friend's phone is considered a fun prank. There's a new bug going around that can paralyze the iPhone's Messages app if it receives a message with ...
Houston Chronicle

Microsoft Excel Won't Show Japanese Characters

Japanese characters often become garbled when you work with CSV or text files in Microsoft Excel. To avoid the problem, use the Unicode encoding option when importing the data into Excel. Unicode is ...