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 ...

Chandraveer, a seasoned mechanical design engineer turned tech reporter and reviewer, brings more than three years of rich experience in consumer tech journalism to the table, having contributed to ...

The average keyboard only has so many characters labeled on it for use. Beyond that, there are plenty of other symbols and punctuation that are worth using, yet have no home on a Chromebook’s QWERTY ...

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 ...

You can add special characters on a PC or Mac computer by using keyboard shortcuts or accessing a pop-up window.

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 ...

Ska heads have been waiting for this: A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other ...

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 ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

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A new version of Snake, coded to run in your browser’s URL address bar, makes playing it on your old Nokia brick feel ...

When I hold down the Alt key and press +00C6, I should get this symbol Æ (which I inserted from character map), but instead I get this symbol ♠ (which I typed in directly).<BR><BR>Any idea why I'm ...