The range of characters that can be represented by Unicode is truly bewildering. If there’s a symbol that was ever used to represent a sound or a concept anywhere in the world, chances are pretty good ...

Enigmatriz is a digital artist who combines the glyphs, code, characters and symbols of the average keyboard into a plethora ...

When you’re restricted to ASCII, how can you represent more complex things like emojis or non-Latin characters? One answer is Punycode, which is a way to represent Unicode characters in ASCII. However ...

Could malicious backdoors be hiding in your code, that otherwise appears perfectly clean to the human eye and text editors alike? A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters can ...

The iOS 16.4 beta that was released today introduces new Unicode 15 emoji characters, adding new emoji options for the first time in more than a year. New emoji characters include shaking face, pink ...

The Unicode Consortium just released the latest version of its standard, with 164 new emojis and “several thousand additional ...

Imagine sending a simple emoji in a text message—just a cheerful smiley face or a thumbs-up—without a second thought. Now, what if I told you that same emoji could secretly carry hidden instructions ...

It's easy to mistake an "l" for a "1" or an "I" with a poorly designed typeface. (Ahem.) Fortunately, modern fonts tend to use a variety of techniques to disambiguate those easily confused ...

Post 1Attackers are getting smarter at hiding in plain sight.Permiso researchers uncovered a new Unicode-based technique—dubbed Inboxfuscation—that manipulates Microsoft Exchange inbox rules to evade ...