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, ...

As a result, the Unicode Transformation Format 8 (UTF-8) encoding supports 2 31 code points, with most characters in the current Unicode character set requiring generally one or two bytes each.

The big picture: The Unicode Consortium recently announced the latest Unicode Standard, Version 14. This version brings more than 838 new characters, including 37 emoji characters ranging from ...

Apple offers robust support in macOS for Unicode, a standard that provides a unique number to represent characters and symbols. Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for ...

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

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 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.

There's a whole "magic Unicode" list of characters that behave strangely when placed in a typical UI. This isn't even an exhaustive list, with many characters that do not behave as expected! These ...