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 ...

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 ...

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

Unicode concerns itself with the encoding of codepoints. Both standards are synchronized.<BR><BR>All possible codepoints in the Universal Character Set will be in the range 0x0 to 0x10ffff (2^20 ...

Invisible characters spotted by some IDEs like JetBrains (Imgur) Playing around with invisible Unicode characters isn't new knowledge either.

Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird.

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