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.

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 ...

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 ...