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

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

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 Unicode 10, released in June, there were 56 new emojis and 8,518 new characters overall. How is the standard organised? The consortium endeavours to keep obvious sets, such as alphabets together.

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 ...

In contrast, PostgreSQL's VARCHAR is inherently based on UTF-8 Unicode, making it more flexible in terms of character set support. Here are the main differences in VARCHAR between SQL Server and ...