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 character ...

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 ...

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 -- ...

If you’re using Mac OS X, a massive revolution is proceeding unnoticed on your computer. No, I don’t mean Unix, preemptive multitasking, or any other familiar buzzwords. I’m talking about text. How ...

On the Mac, you can type any character available in there Unicode standard, just by opening up the Emoji & Symbols viewer (Control-Command-Space) and picking the one you want. The selection on iOS is ...

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 as part ...