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… ...

Character Map UWP makes it easy to insert these wherever you want. You can search for any character or icon using its unicode, making it even easier to jump to an icon.

Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts.

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.

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

Twitter's new logo, 𝕏, is a Unicode character that's been used in math notation and textbooks for decades, one researcher said.

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.

Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, ...