Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of text. These are characters which can be built from multiple glyphs, but they also have a pre ...

JRuby is an implementation of Ruby, and in order to achieve the high level of compatibility we boast we've had to put in some extra work. Probably the biggest area is in management of String data.

Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing. A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code channel.

A new Android flaw lets hidden characters in notifications launch wrong links or trigger silent app actions, bypassing ...

In addition to text itself, Unicode also supports many characters such as emoji. The character set is used in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), which is used to create web pages. Thanks to Unicode, a ...

The text is too much for the Messages app to handle, rendering it unusable, crashing every time the user tries to launch it. The bug affects iOS 11.3 and the iOS 11.4 betas. Mashable Light Speed ...

Unicode, the universal standard for text representation, supports an extensive range of characters, including emojis and invisible modifiers known as variation selectors.

It's getting harder to distinguish between AI- and human-generated content. But Unicode presents an elegant hack in the race to watermark AI-written text.

Most Unicode characters don't have associated variations, but the Unicode standard mandates that these selectors be preserved during text transformations, even if their meaning is unknown to the ...

Unicode Emoji 16.0 Alpha is open for early review, with new emoji set to be released in September 2024. The new emoji include a face with bags under eyes, a fingerprint, a leafless tree, a root ...