The range of characters that can be represented by Unicode is truly bewildering. If there’s a symbol that was ever used to represent a sound or a concept anywhere in the world, chances are pretty good ...

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 ...

What, pray tell, is that "8." short for? Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I think that if your inability to use written language correctly is literally part of your identity, maybe you shouldn't be ...

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 ...

The Unicode Consortium has confirmed new emojis for release next year, including Bigfoot, an orca whale, a treasure chest, ...