Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...
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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 ...
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 'secret ...
For anyone old enough to have worked with the hell of multiple incompatible character sets, Unicode has been a liberation; a true One Character Set To Contain Them All. We have so many Unicode ...
How to easily write text backwards (right to left) in a web page or in a forum without having to think about the order of the letters? There is a relatively surprising solution, which involves the use ...
Version 16.0 of the Unicode standard has been released, adding 3,995 new hieroglyphs and seven new emojis, bringing the total number of characters defined in the Unicode standard to 154,998. The ...