If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.

As hackers are getting more sophisticated and security measures continue to improve, it’s a simple text message that can take down an iPhone. A recently spotted issue brought to light by a Redditor ...

A new Unicode text bug is being spread around today, popularised by a video by EverythingApplePro. It’s being called the ‘black dot’ bug because of its origins on Android as a bug relating to WhatsApp ...

If you receive a strange text from someone that looks like Arabic script and then your iPhone crashes; you have been a victim of a newly discovered flaw in iOS Unicode. Reports indicate that when the ...

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

A decades-old computer character standard has been updated with a symbol for bitcoin. The Unicode Consortium unveiled Unicode version 10.0 today, which includes the bitcoin "B" symbol. Overall, the ...