Surprise! Assorted jerks on the internet have weaponized the Unicode-based bug we reported yesterday to insta-crash apps running on an iPhone or a Mac. The result is somewhere between the old Alt ...

Suddenly it isn’t so clear what character equality even means — Unicode defines two kinds of equivalences, canonical and compatibility. These are but a sampling of the issues [Marco] discusses.

Twitter on Monday rolled out its new logo and brand: 𝕏. 𝕏 is a Unicode character known as "mathematical double-struck capital X." The new logo is also nearly identical to the lowercase "x ...

When one of the two symbols is displayed in an app, the software crashes immediately. In many cases, the app cannot be reopened and must be reinstalled.

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. Andrew Cunningham – Sep 12, 2024 2:39 pm | 109 ...

The problem isn't widespread, but is clearly some form of bug that comes and goes in iOS 11. The symbol generated is a combination of the unicode symbol 0049 for the capital letter "i" as well as ...

More than 100 new emoji have been approved, and will be released on smartphones in 2020.; Among the new emoji are a transgender flag and a transgender symbol, as well as gender-inclusive emoji ...

The Unicode consortium on Tuesday (20 June) announced the release of version 10.0, which brings 56 new emoji characters. Vendors such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung are likely to include ...

Picture Character, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a documentary about the origins, rise, and future of the emoji. It follows the journey of the hijab, mate, and period blood ...

Instead, a thousands-character-long string of invisible Unicode text, which accompanies the dot, does the damage. The text is too much for the Messages app to handle, rendering it unusable ...