Incorporation into the Unicode standard is only the first step that new emoji and other characters take on their journey from someone's mind to your phone or computer; software makers like Apple ...

In Unicode, certain characters, symbols ... The resulting emoji looks like a normal emoji at first glance, but it actually contains the secret data 'hello.' When Butler pasted the emoji into ...

He first presents a brief history of Unicode ... the usual functions like strlen fall apart. Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of ...

were key drivers in Unicode encoding characters that have become well-used in our digital communication: emojis. In 2010, Unicode encoded its first-ever set of emojis. This included many faces ...

The Consortium has been overseeing the character inventory of electronic ... styles may vary between providers. Despite the first Unicode listings predating them, a 1999 set of 176 simple ...

In a nutshell: A recent blog post by software engineer Paul Butler has shed light on a novel technique for concealing data within Unicode characters, specifically emojis. The post explains the ...