You mean "Why was one of the programmers involved in working out the character encoding issues in one of the programs that processed that message dumb?". Unicode may never have been involved.

Unique and creative nicknames have long been a source of interest for Free Fire players worldwide, with many going to great lengths to get a moniker that sets them apart. This has further expanded to ...

What, pray tell, is that "8." short for? Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I think that if your inability to use written language correctly is literally part of your identity, maybe you shouldn't be ...

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 ...

For anyone old enough to have worked with the hell of multiple incompatible character sets, Unicode has been a liberation; a true One Character Set To Contain Them All. We have so many Unicode ...

Apple's finally updating its line of emoji characters with a diverse skin color palette, but some say the yellowish skin tone included in the pack raises some questions: Are they Asian stereotypes?

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 ...

United Nations Development Program (UNDP), on International Mother's Language day, has launched the Unicode version, with seven different iterations, of the UN Bangla font to ease access to the ...