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A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other approved emoji from Unicode 17.0 ...
I'm experiencing issues with Unicode normalization in Python 3.10. When handling Unicode strings that contain combining characters or other characters that should be normalized, the normalization ...
This paper deals with problems in the representation of phonetic symbols of Malayalam language on HTML pages. These symbols are not normally available on a computer keyboard. In many cases it used to ...
In Python, ASCII and Unicode are two character encoding standards used to represent text. 33 non-printable control characters, 95 printable characters, including digits, lowercase and uppercase ...
Twitter’s new logo is a Unicode character from a math alphabets subset. The previous logo was refined over more than a decade and heavily regulated online. The “Twitter X” dates back to 2001 ...
Twitter's new logo, 𝕏, is a Unicode character that's been used in math notation and textbooks for decades, one researcher said.
Unicode is a massive, sprawling effort that pairs a number to every unique character in a language, every punctuation mark, every math symbol, and much more.
A malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository has been found to use Unicode as a trick to evade detection and deploy an info-stealing malware. The package in question, named ...
When you’re restricted to ASCII, how can you represent more complex things like emojis or non-Latin characters? One answer is Punycode, which is a way to represent Unicode characters in ASCII ...
It’s not difficult to add special characters to your Windows 11 document (although it’s not quite as smooth an operation as on a Mac).