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 ...

most of the time, at least. The Mac has a series of tools that make it easier to work with Unicode. The first one can be found under the "Edit" menu as "Special characters." This menu item opens ...

XML and style sheets are provided as well as updates on major platforms such as Mac OS X, Mozilla, Java, Windows XP and ICU. Unicode is a character coding system designed to support the ...

Of interest to iPhone and Mac users is the emoji portion of Unicode 8, which introduces 37 new emoji and five emoji modifiers (these are the same skin tone modifiers that Apple has already adopted).

Apple says new emoji characters will soon grace the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. Unicode 11 brings new representation for emoji with options for red hair, gray hair, curly hair, and no hair ...