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Back in the day, American Standard Code for Information Interchange was the system for translation or encoding characters. However, ASCII was limited to the English alphabet, punctuation, and numbers.
For simple Latin characters (alphabet), there is a one-to-one correspondence between Unicode code points and the characters displayed on a device screen, for example, 'U+0067' represents the ...
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 ...
Unicode contains characters from various languages, including the Latin alphabet, but there are only four characters that have separate types registered in addition to 'uppercase' and 'lowercase ...
With these symbols, in 1902 Pau Cin Hau came up with a logographic script for the local Chin language – the first time the spoken language was rendered in writing, and a watershed moment in Chin ...
Unicode could be seen as a universal version of ASCII. ASCII is, after all, the American Code for Information Interchange, and its first iteration included the English-language alphabet and ...
Unlike typing Roman numerals using their lookalikes in the Latin alphabet, when you type Roman numerals in Unicode, each character counts as one entity in supported environments. For example, VIII ...
ASCII and Unicode are character sets for computers. Imagine ASCII like a small alphabet, only for English letters, numbers, and some symbols.
Speakers of Tamil, which has 247 characters, "often type in English characters" to transliterate. For millions of speakers of languages that lack digital texts and fonts, "much of modern life is ...
Google says RETVec is here to save the day: "RETVec is trained to be resilient against character-level manipulations including insertion, deletion, typos, homoglyphs, LEET substitution, and more.
The characters that you are reading right now, i.e. the latin alphabet's characters, are not as common as one may think. Summing up the number of native speakers of the top 20 most spoken langueges of ...