Whereas ASCII is limited to 128 or 256 characters however, Unicode supports 17 individual planes, each of which can map 65,536 characters, for a grand total of 1,114,112 possible characters.

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

New phishing campaigns attempt to evade detection by constructing rogue QR codes with special ASCII characters and load phishing pages locally using the local blob URL feature in browsers.

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… ...