Apple offers robust support in macOS for Unicode, a standard that provides a unique number to represent characters and symbols. Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for scientific ...
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 ...
Twitter on Monday rolled out its new logo and brand: 𝕏. 𝕏 is a Unicode character known as "mathematical double-struck capital X." The new logo is also nearly identical to the lowercase "x" in the ...
The Unicode Consortium has finalized and released version 16.0 of the Unicode standard, the elaborate character set that ensures that our phones, tablets, PCs, and other devices can all communicate ...
Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...
On the Mac, you can type any character available in there Unicode standard, just by opening up the Emoji & Symbols viewer (Control-Command-Space) and picking the one you want. The selection on iOS is ...
iOS: Unicode-created emoji might be hot shit now, but they’re no help when you need to access more obscure punctuation marks, accented characters, and currency symbols in a document or totally witty ...
Google has taken on its fair share of ambitious projects — digitizing millions and millions of books, mapping the whole world, pioneering self-driving cars. It's a company that doesn't shy away from ...