Before Unicode, different countries or language groups had their own text encoding standards. The problem became apparent to end users with the widespread introduction of the World Wide Web.

Like everything else, the Unicode Consortium has had a wrench 🔧 thrown into its regimented schedule by the novel coronavirus. 😷 Unicode, which oversees text-encoding standards across ...

Emoji don’t appear out of nowhere. They’re managed by a governing body of the internet known as the Unicode Consortium, which sets encoding standards for characters so that they appear mostly ...

You might get a Microsoft Word 2007 email attachment from friends, co-workers or others - especially someone from another country - that can't be read. The text file may contain unusual strings of ...