The Unicode Consortium is a rather mysterious entity. Its stated goal is straightforward: to "enable people around the world to use computers in any language." The organization tracks every character ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

The Bitcoin Foundation is looking for volunteers for its Standards Committee, which will be tasked with creating and adopting a bitcoin Unicode symbol. This committee will also examine denomination ...

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 ...

Version 16.0 of the Unicode standard has been released, adding 3,995 new hieroglyphs and seven new emojis, bringing the total number of characters defined in the ...

'⍼' 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 ...

MOSCOW, July 11. /ITAR-TASS/. Unicode consortium has included the graphic symbol of the Russian ruble, which the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) endorsed officially in December 2013, the CBR said in a ...

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 ...

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 ...