There have been a variety of Unicode encoding methods over the years, but modern programs dealing with strings will probably be using UTF-8 encoding — and you should too.

The Unicode standard is a numbering system; fonts require individual drawings to represent characters.

Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird.

Following a pandemic-related delay, the Unicode Consortium has finalized Unicode 14.0. In all, the update adds 838 characters to the text standard. Of those 838 characters, 37 represent new emoji ...