Google Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web, Mark Davis, Google's senior international software architect, said in a blog post.

Whereas ASCII is limited to 128 or 256 characters however, Unicode supports 17 individual planes, each of which can map 65,536 characters, for a grand total of 1,114,112 possible characters.

However, this first version of the ASCII code (which is pronounced “ask-key”) left many things – such as the lower case Latin letters – undefined, and it wasn't until 1968 that the currently used ...

New phishing campaigns attempt to evade detection by constructing rogue QR codes with special ASCII characters and load phishing pages locally using the local blob URL feature in browsers.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that string ...

When you’re restricted to ASCII, how can you represent more complex things like emojis or non-Latin characters? One answer is Punycode, which is a way to represent Unicode characters in ASCII.

Vendors could also have an option to display both the ASCII and Unicode versions of domains, to highlight any non-ASCII characters in the domain portion of URLs, or to utilize any one of numerous ...

Unicode can express any character as a 16-bit code, regardless of operating system or programming language. It includes almost all current alphabets (among them Arabic, Armenian, Cyrillic, Greek, ...

God knows what everything else uses.<BR><BR>Since it's complaining that ó is a multi-character constant, it sounds like Unicode. ó in UTF-8, for example, is ó.

A graph, entirely in Unicode characters. It’s fair to say that most of us who regularly use a terminal don’t go far beyond the ASCII, as it’s likely that a modern terminal will sit in a ...