Trending today: new emojis from the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that's tasked with standardizing emojis across all operating systems.

The Unicode Consortium is a rather mysterious entity. Its stated goal is straightforward: to "enable people around the world to use computers in any language." The organization tracks every character ...

If you’re using Mac OS X, a massive revolution is proceeding unnoticed on your computer. No, I don’t mean Unix, preemptive multitasking, or any other familiar buzzwords. I’m talking about text. How ...

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

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 the cut – ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At a glance, emoji are simple. Each icon visually represents something instantly recognizable — food, a happy ...

It's easy to mistake an "l" for a "1" or an "I" with a poorly designed typeface. (Ahem.) Fortunately, modern fonts tend to use a variety of techniques to disambiguate those easily confused ...

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A calendar generation site that allows you to copy and paste output contents directly to web pages and SNS to output as characters instead of images is 'Unicode Calendar Generator'is. The top page of ...