Unicode especially is pretty bad, but even any other character set or encoding (including TRON code) to try to be suitable for everything will not be. Also, using ICU cannot avoid some of the bugs ...

If you already know what is Unicode and you are sure that you know that you want to convert it to 7-bit ASCII and of the downside that it has, you can skip the chit-chat and jump to JUnidecode ...

You mean "Why was one of the programmers involved in working out the character encoding issues in one of the programs that processed that message dumb?". Unicode may never have been involved ...

Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts.

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 ...

Unicode also ranked the emoji in groups by median frequency, with the peach emoji ranked seventh in usage, along with the mind blown emoji. Seems fitting. Subscribe to the Design newsletter.

The Unicode body doesn’t really try to give a platform, so to speak, but I feel like emoji is kind of a very important communication tool in helping us communicate, ...

The Unicode Consortium has no time for overly specific emoji, amongst other things. For example, you can already get french fries as an emoji, so any pitches for potato chips, ...

Unicode 8's set of 41 new emoji — 37 images and five modifiers — may have just been released in July, but we're already looking ahead to the next update. What will the Unicode 9 emoji look like?