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.

Meet the shadowy overlords who approve emojis The Unicode Consortium is responsible for green-lighting all emojis.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that string ...

Last year, the Unicode Consortium–which decides upon and standardizes emoji–added more skin tones to its catalog. Today, Unicode took another step towards making emoji more diverse: emoji are ...

Paul Hunt is a type designer at Adobe who helped bring the orange heart and more gender-inclusive emoji to Unicode 10, the upcoming version of Unicode Standard. The orange addition is key for ...