The average keyboard only has so many characters labeled on it for use. Beyond that, there are plenty of other symbols and punctuation that are worth using, yet have no home on a Chromebook’s QWERTY ...

Open up your browser on your iPhone/iPad/MacBook and go to http://emojipedia.org/emojipedia/. If necessary, scroll down until you see the sentence “Emojis from ...

Why stick with boring old Arial? A super easy-to-use Unicode text converter lets you make your tweets font-astically fancy. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Unicode lets you display extended characters in your Visual Basic 6 forms. This means that you can display characters, for instance Chinese or Russian letter, in a form that is used by an English user ...

Quantitative data about emoji usage reveals a lot about their role in language—and how they help us express emotions we have no words for. Unicode Consortium is the standard bearer of emoji. The ...

So how would a character that is not in unicode, be encoded? No doubt one issue would be how would software show it, but even putting that difficulty aside. The difference has to be stored, so the ...

But a technical report released by the Unicode Consortium--and simultaneously published as a note by the W3C's internationalization activity--warns document authors that some Unicode features are ...

Have a friend who loves typography or emoji, but hates material gifts of any kind? Now there’s a present for them. Starting this week, the Unicode Consortium will let donors “adopt” any one of the ...