Even though the introduction of Unicode technically solved this problem, you can still encounter situations in which some or all of your Unicode characters will not display properly in Java programs.

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 ...

Unicode has a tricky terminology. Characters are not defined in Unicode, eventhough they sometimes speaks of abstract characters. You have code units (bytes/UInt8 in UTF-8 and UInt16 in UTF-16), ...

In putting together my Nebulous Notes macros, I ended up having to choose icons for the buttons that would sit on top of my keyboard.As you can see from my screenshots, I’m using specific Unicode ...

There’s a semi-hidden way to access special symbol sets in Unicode, and a somewhat obscure method of searching for specific symbols across all of macOS’s included Unicode characters.

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You know Unicode symbols, right? The ones you might find in tweets from time to time, or in links from Daring Fireball and Shawn Blanc’s website. Yes, these symbols. It turns out, they’re pretty cute.