Earlier this week, software engineer Paul Butler published a blog post titled "Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji." In it, he showcased a tool he created to allow you to do this yourself ...

punctuation marks or symbols from different languages worldwide. And Unicode is the name for those agreed numbers. It resulted in a lot of data corruption, akin to when a text document is written ...

And when texts were exchanged across different devices, users saw "garbage characters." Enter the Unicode Consortium. The group manages the Unicode Standard, which contains code for displaying ...

For those of us with science and engineering backgrounds, opening the character map or memorizing the Unicode shortcuts for various symbols is a tedious but familiar part of writing reports or ...

Twitter’s new logo is a Unicode character from a math alphabets ... stroke 𝕏 has cool company among the equally international symbols for prime numbers or integers. But since this new logo ...