Unicode has many code points that have visually different representations of the same character. For example, the image below shows all visually different representations of 'X'.

As a result, the Unicode Transformation Format 8 (UTF-8) encoding supports 2 31 code points, with most characters in the current Unicode character set requiring generally one or two bytes each.

Cybersecurity researchers from Phylum have found a new form of malware in a PyPI package that was using Unicode to hide. Unicode is a global encoding standard used for different languages and ...