Nobody told that to Elon Musk when he rebranded Twitter using a generic unicode character, and now The Green Party of Canada appears to have taken off-the-shelf branding even further.

Unicode is a standard for character encoding that can represent a wide variety of characters used around the world. Software engineer Paul Butler explains that Unicode allows users to embed ...

The resulting character appears normal to the eye but contains hidden data that anyone can extract with Butler's tool. He posted the encoder online if you'd like to experiment with it.

The coach did help teenager Yamal blossom into a key player and now the 17-year-old is the symbol of Hansi Flick's exciting side who have already proven they can beat the best in Europe.

In an early version of the Unicode standard, it was going to be used to create language tags such as “en” and “jp” to signal that a text was written in English or Japanese.

right there with you, bags-under-eyes emoji Unicode 16.0 release with new emoji brings character count to 154,998 New designs will roll out to phones, tablets, and PCs over the next few months.

The shift was so widespread that Unicode changed the emoji’s official name to “water pistol.” But Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, recently reversed course.

It’s obviously an X. (Reportedly it’s just a generic Unicode character.) Styles editor Stella Bugbee wrote a lovely essay on why we — Musk included — are all so obsessed with the letter X.

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 ...

The new logo is very similar to a generic Unicode character, which is an international symbol that would be impossible to trademark, the founder of Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, noted.