Computer engineer [Marco Cilloni] realized a lot of developers today still have trouble dealing with Unicode in their programs, especially in the C/C++ world. He wrote an excellent guide that summa… ...

Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts ...

Python's Unicode support can be easily abused to hide malicious string matches, making code appear innocuous while still performing malicious behavior. In this case, the stealing of sensitive data ...

Unveiled on June 16, version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard—a worldwide computing industry specification for the encoding and representation of various kinds of text—contains 2,834 new characters, ...

A malicious package in the Node Package Manager index uses invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious code and Google Calendar links to host the URL for the command-and-control location.

Unicode includes a render command past which other data can be bundled but not rendered, and exploiting that effectively allows users to create hidden messages within Unicode characters.

Here is how it works: Unicode assigns variation selectors (U+FE00–U+FE0F and U+E0100–U+E01EF) to certain characters, usually to adjust stylistic presentation. However, these selectors can be ...

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 ...