The amazing thing is that in only 16-bits, Unicode managed to not only cover all of the Western writing systems, but also many Chinese characters and a variety of specialized symbols, such as ...

Cyrillic, zero-width letters and other Unicode oddities allow those with more nefarious intentions to set up a domain that, when rendered, displays as a well-known website. The SSL certificates ...

Twitter’s new logo is a Unicode character from a math alphabets subset. The previous logo was refined over more than a decade and heavily regulated online. The “Twitter X” dates back to 2001 ...

Most of the Unicode 16.0 emoji, by contrast, are their own unique characters. The one exception is the Sark flag emoji; flag sequences are created by placing two "regional indicator letters ...

Unicode is the backbone of digital text, allowing computers to transform numeric codes into letters and symbols we can all understand. Still, it’s the Unicode Consortium’s newfound influence ...

If you see little symbols in messages following the release of new emoji, it's usually because they represent characters that your device doesn't know how to display. Unicode 15.1 now supports ...

As Apple users updating to the company’s OS 11.1 get their hands on a new set of emojis, here’s a look at the work of the Unicode Consortium – the organisation which agrees which emojis make ...