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… ...

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 ...

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

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 Consortium has announced version 7.0 of the Unicode character-encoding standard, bringing an additional 2,834 new characters and 250 new emojis to its already extensive character set.

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.

Uniconsole does one thing extremely well, and while the characters and symbols it collects can be found online with a bit of research, I’ll take the convenience of a Universal app over wasting my time ...

The Unicode Consortium says that Unicode "can encode up to roughly 1.1 million characters, allowing it to support all of the world’s languages and scripts in a single, universal standard" and ...

This is supposed to be simple but I must be a bloody idiot.How can I get the unicode value (e.g. 0xFFFD) of a given char?By extension, how can I get the GB or Big-5 encoding? (I'm guessing this ...