Encoding and displaying characters from different languages used to mean working between multiple different formatting systems within the same project. Even though the introduction of Unicode ...

In putting together my Nebulous Notes macros, I ended up having to choose icons for the buttons that would sit on top of my keyboard. As you can see from my screenshots, I’m using specific Unicode ...

You know Unicode symbols, right? The ones you might find in tweets from time to time, or in links from Daring Fireball and Shawn Blanc’s website. Yes, these symbols. It turns out, they’re pretty cute.

If you come across a symbol you’ve never seen before, or you want to look up the unicode for a certain symbol, it may be a small challenge to search for it if you’re not entirely sure of its name.

'⍼' is a symbol included in fonts for mathematical symbols. For example, if you expand the '⍼' included in the mathematical formula / chemical formula font 'Cambria Math', it looks like this. It is a ...

*That must be an interesting tech bureaucracy. http://www.unicode.org/~scherer/emoji4unicode/snapshot/full.html "This document reflects proposed Emoji symbols data as ...

Unicode 10.0 is expected to add 56 new emoji, 8,518 characters, and four new scripts. For a complete breakdown with images, check out Emojipedia. A weekly newsletter by David Pierce designed to tell ...

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 ...

TechCrunch has learned of a potentially serious new bug affecting a wide range of Apple devices. During their development work on an international news feed, software engineers at Aloha Browser ...