With 16-bits allowing for 2 16 = 65,536 code points, the 7,129 characters of Unicode 1.0 fit easily, but by the time Unicode 3.1 rolled around in 2001, Unicode contained no less than 94,140 ...

There have been a variety of Unicode encoding methods over the ... a variable-width encoding that uses 1-byte characters designed for IBM’s EBCDIC systems (note: I think it’s safe to argue ...

The update adds 5,185 new characters to the standard, bringing the total up to a whopping 154,998. We last got new emoji in 2023's Unicode 15.1 update, though all of these designs were technically ...

Earlier this week, software engineer Paul Butler published a blog post titled "Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji." In it, he showcased a tool he created to allow you to do this yourself ...

In Unicode, certain characters, symbols ... Sequence (IVS), and there are a total of 256 variants ranging from 'VS-1 (U+FE00 in hexadecimal notation)' to 'VS-256 (U+E01EF in hexadecimal notation)'.

Twitter on Monday rolled out its new logo and brand: 𝕏. 𝕏 is a Unicode character known as "mathematical double-struck capital X." The new logo is also nearly identical to the lowercase "x ...

These 256 special codepoints labeled VS-1 through VS-256 have no visible representation but can modify the presentation of the preceding character. Most Unicode characters don't have associated ...

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. And nearly all of it is available ...