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… ...

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 ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall.

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

The new standard brings users 838 new Unicode characters, including five new scripts. Version 14 also has 37 new emojis, including handshakes and heart hands, a melting face, pointing fingers ...

The Unicode standard defines the binary code points for roughly 150,000 characters found in languages around the world. The standard has the capacity to define more than 1 million characters.

The Unicode 14 delay means that emoji characters we might have expected Apple to adopt in the fall of 2021 will be pushed back for six months.

What is a Unicode character? On whatever computer you use, there is a system that allows you to type special symbols and characters.