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 ...

A business writes a 150-character appointment reminder, adds one emoji to make it friendlier, and discovers that ...

You say that the only practical choices for character encodings are ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. In fact, there is a vast range of encodings that will work (basically any encoding that doesn't use NUL and '/ ...

JavaScript has Unicode support and all JavaScript strings are UTF-16 coded - this has some unexpected results for any programmer under the impression that they can assume that one character is one ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced version 7.0 of the Unicode character-encoding standard, bringing an additional 2,834 new characters and 250 new emojis to its already extensive character set. The ...

The big picture: The Unicode Consortium recently announced the latest Unicode Standard, Version 14. This version brings more than 838 new characters, including 37 emoji characters ranging from biting ...

From Cisco’s latest security response: The U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) has reported a network evasion technique using full-width and half-width unicode characters that affects ...

Even if you are using a different encoding in the web page, the encoding used by the browser is still Unicode. The only thing that setting the charset property does is to govern how the codes stored ...