There have been a variety of Unicode encoding methods over the years, but modern programs dealing with strings will probably be using UTF-8 encoding — and you should too.

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

You have to give the Unicode’s Emoji Subcommittee some credit. As emoji has risen in popularity to become the primary way we express ourselves over text, the Unicode Consortium is burdened with ...

Meet the shadowy overlords who approve emojis The Unicode Consortium is responsible for green-lighting all emojis.

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.