Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also ...

— Unicode Consortium (@unicode) June 25, 2017 And that includes standards in emojis. In Unicode 8.0, 1,281 character codes were emojis of the 120,000 codes overall.

The range of characters that can be represented by Unicode is truly bewildering. If there’s a symbol that was ever used to represent a sound or a concept anywhere in the world, chances are ...

The Unicode standard is a numbering system; fonts require individual drawings to represent characters.

Displaying Unicode in Notepad. If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that ...

CatchCar is a Windows freeware that lets you insert Unicode and special characters in Notepad, Word and other documents, via your right-click context menu.

Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing. A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code channel.

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.