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.

Have you ever used Twitter, Gmail, or YouTube and noticed odd characters being displayed vertically overlay other text on the page or break out UI boundaries? If so and have wondered how this is ...

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 ...

An old domain parsing loophole could make browsers like Chrome and Firefox vulnerable to undetectable phishing attacks, according to a recent report. Discovered by Xudong Zheng, a web application ...

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 ...

Using the in-built utilities Charmap and Eudcedit, Windows allows you to insert Unicode and special characters in Notepad and your other documents. But the process is not easy and takes a bit of time.

The Unicode Consortium has announced version 7.0 of the Unicode character-encoding standard, bringing an additional 2,834 new characters and 250 new emojis to its already extensive character set. The ...

Unicode lets you display extended characters in your Visual Basic 6 forms. This means that you can display characters, for instance Chinese or Russian letter, in a form that is used by an English user ...

Searching through your word processor for exactly the right special character can be a pain. Inunico.de is a great Web app that lets you search using familiar terms, then copy and paste the characters ...

Cybercriminals keep finding new angles to get your attention, and email remains one of their favorite tools. Over the years, you have probably seen everything from fake courier notices to AI-generated ...