Encoding symbols and characters in digital form is fairly easy—but making sure that everyone in the world is doing it in the same way sure isn’t. Fortunately, Unicode came along—but how the hell does ...

UTF-8 does work in the Terminal, but your unix apps may not be able to handle it. Create a UTF-8 file with whatever characters you please, and then "cat". It should show up. "ls", on the other hand, ...

So how would a character that is not in unicode, be encoded? No doubt one issue would be how would software show it, but even putting that difficulty aside. The difference has to be stored, so the ...

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