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.

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 ...

Inspired by previously mentioned tinyarro.ws URL-shortening service, reader David decided to try inserting helpful Unicode characters in his Gmail labels to give more context to each label. The sort ...

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 ...

You can also send a blank message from the web. If you already know the Unicode character. For instance, for the Braille ...

A malicious message dubbed the 'Black Dot' message has started doing the rounds on iOS following circulation on Android devices, one that takes advantage of a bug in Unicode to crash Apple's Messages ...

Attackers are abusing bidirectional text to make fake URLs look real, reviving a decade-old browser flaw now fueling new ...