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 ...

The Unicode Consortium has just announced the release of version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard, the list of characters “which specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and ...

How to easily write text backwards (right to left) in a web page or in a forum without having to think about the order of the letters? There is a relatively surprising solution, which involves the use ...

Surprise! Assorted jerks on the internet have weaponized the Unicode-based bug we reported yesterday to insta-crash apps running on an iPhone or a Mac. The result is somewhere between the old Alt + F4 ...