There is a relatively surprising solution, which involves the use of a special character (to be placed just after your text) to automatically change display direction of your text. The generally ...

The job of a dumb terminal was originally to be a continuation of that performed by a paper teletype, to send text from ... extended characters as possible. A graph, entirely in Unicode characters.

So the problems faced by Japanese consumers when their kitten emoji text messages showed up as junk characters on their friends' phones spurred the consortium to add emojis to its Unicode Standard.

Fortunately, there's a great webapp called Inunico.de (the name refers to the Unicode system of text characters) that lets you search for the characters you need. Just point your browser to ...

The Unicode Consortium has just announced the release of version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard, the list of characters "which specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and ...

Twitter on Monday rolled out its new logo and brand: 𝕏. 𝕏 is a Unicode character ... that the character has "been used in mathematical text books since the 70s." The symbol doesn't have ...

The symbol for your favorite cured pork product, along with 71 other characters ... by the Unicode Consortium, the organization that standardizes how symbols are encoded into text.

As it turns out, there was—and in some cases still is. The invisible characters, the result of a quirk in the Unicode text encoding standard, create an ideal covert channel that can make it ...

Google today announced it is implementing a new effort to thwart spammers and scammers: the open standard known as Unicode Consortium ... accented and non-Latin characters.

The Unicode Consortium on Tuesday released version 10.0 of the Unicode Standard, offering a preview of new text characters and emoji that will likely arrive on Apple platforms like iOS later this ...

the Unicode Consortium has finalized Unicode 14.0. In all, the update adds 838 characters to the text standard. Of those 838 characters, 37 represent new emoji that will make their way to your ...