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

In the first part of this article, I introduced you to Unicode, a grand unification scheme whereby every character in every writing system would be represented by a unique value, up to a potential one ...

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 ...

The Unicode 10.0 standard has been released by the Unicode Consortium. In summary Unicode 10.0 has added 8,518 new characters for a total of 136,690.

The Unicode Consortium announced today that it has produced a new set of 157 emoji that will be available to Apple, Google and Microsoft in June.

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 ...

Even though the introduction of Unicode technically solved this problem, you can still encounter situations in which some or all of your Unicode characters will not display properly in Java programs.

Discover how hidden Unicode data, including emojis, is being used to exploit AI systems and what developers can do to mitigate these risks.