Computer engineer [Marco Cilloni] realized a lot of developers today still have trouble dealing with Unicode in their programs, especially in the C/C++ world. He wrote an excellent guide that ...

The Unicode Consortium is a rather mysterious entity. Its stated goal is straightforward: to "enable people around the world to use computers in any language." The organization tracks every ...

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 ...

As the new head of the Emoji Subcommittee for the Unicode Consortium, Jennifer Daniel has a vision for how to make these symbols work for everyone. Emoji are now part of our language. If you’re ...

Want an emoji to be included on your phone? It's a lot of work. Credit: MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images Emojis are a ubiquitous way to communicate in this day and age, but you've probably wondered ...

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

To answer these questions, The Times called Mark Davis, president and co-founder of the Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit Silicon Valley group responsible for emojis, among many other things.

Paul Hunt is a type designer at Adobe who helped bring the orange heart and more gender-inclusive emoji to Unicode 10, the upcoming version of Unicode Standard. The orange addition is key for ...