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 ...

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 ...

Apple offers robust support in macOS for Unicode, a standard that provides a unique number to represent characters and symbols. Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for ...

Software engineer Paul Butler explains that Unicode allows users to embed 'secret messages' in characters that look normal on a device. Paul Butler – Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji ...

Now, Unicode is tip-toeing into the branding world a bit, and allowing people to adopt a character—for a price, and toward a cause. Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a ...