For example: "The CAT FACE, PIG FACE, or RABBIT FACE may be used to evoke positive feelings, while SPIDER may used to evoke negative feelings," according to the Unicode Consortium.

The Unicode Consortium finalized version 8.0 of the Unicode standard yesterday—the latest iteration of the spec that helps our computers and phones keep all their special characters straight.

Devised by the Unicode Consortium the new list features an eclectic range of random objects, figures and symbols which the organisation hopes will inspire artists to create new icons to match the ...

A better solution is UTF-8. To understand what UTF-8 is, think about how you would encode Unicode as a sequence of bytes. One obvious way would just be to have the bytes represent each character’s ...

The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all ...

for example every type of flower or every breed of dog; or if it’s a transient concept. “Think less ‘memes’ and more stable longstanding concepts.” In terms of the new Unicode 14.0 ...

(To explain it simply, an emoji is a graphic that can take the place of a corresponding Unicode character. For example, the Grinning Face emoji corresponds to Unicode character U+1F600. In other ...

Then the Unicode characters are encoded and stuck on the end of the string. As you might notice in the Greek example, there is nothing to help the decoder know which base-36 characters belong to ...

For simple Latin characters (alphabet), there is a one-to-one correspondence between Unicode code points and the characters displayed on a device screen, for example, 'U+0067' represents the ...