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 schemes, also ...

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

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 ...

In Unicode 10, released in June, there were 56 new emojis and 8,518 new characters overall. How is the standard organised? The consortium endeavours to keep obvious sets, such as alphabets together.

What is a Unicode character? On whatever computer you use, there is a system that allows you to type special symbols and characters.

Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird.

iOS: Unicode-created emoji might be hot shit now, but they’re no help when you need to access more obscure punctuation marks, accented characters, and currency symbols in a document or totally ...

Invisible characters spotted by some IDEs like JetBrains (Imgur) Playing around with invisible Unicode characters isn't new knowledge either.