CatchCar is a Windows freeware that lets you insert Unicode and special characters in Notepad, Word and other documents, via your right-click context menu.

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… ...

The Unicode standard defines the binary code points for roughly 150,000 characters found in languages around the world. The standard has the capacity to define more than 1 million characters.

Displaying Unicode in Notepad. 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 ...

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 ...

There is a relatively surprising solution, which involves the use of a special character (to be placed just after your text) to automatically change display direction of your text. The generally ...

The Unicode standard is a numbering system; fonts require individual drawings to represent characters.

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday released version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard, offering a preview of new text characters and emoji that will likely arrive on Apple platforms like iOS later this ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall.