Twitter’s new logo is a Unicode character from a math alphabets subset. The previous logo was refined over more than a decade and heavily regulated online. The “Twitter X” dates back to 2001 ...

If you see little symbols in messages following the release of new emoji, it's usually because they represent characters that your device doesn't know how to display. Unicode 15.1 now supports ...

There’s a semi-hidden way to access special symbol sets in Unicode, and a somewhat obscure method of searching for specific symbols across all of macOS’s included Unicode characters.

Unicode has a tricky terminology. Characters are not defined in Unicode, eventhough they sometimes speaks of abstract characters. You have code units (bytes/UInt8 in UTF-8 and UInt16 in UTF-16), ...

One answer is Punycode, which is a way to represent Unicode characters in ASCII. However, while you could technically encode the raw bits of Unicode into characters, like Base64 , there’s a snag.

The Unicode standard defines the binary code points for roughly 150,000 characters found in languages around the world. The standard has the capacity to define more than 1 million characters.