Computer engineer [Marco Cilloni] realized a lot of developers today still have trouble dealing with Unicode in their programs, especially in the C/C++ world. He wrote an excellent guide that ...

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 is a rather mysterious entity. Its stated goal is straightforward: to "enable people around the world to use computers in any language." The organization tracks every character ...

Twitter’s new logo is a Unicode character from a math alphabets subset. The previous logo was refined over more than a decade and heavily regulated online. The “Twitter X” dates back to 2001 as part ...

You may have your own go-to emoji, but according to Emojipedia, these are some of the most popular emoji as of the mid-December. The list changes periodically, so what's popular now might not be ...

Unicode is a standard for character encoding that can represent a wide variety of characters used around the world. Software engineer Paul Butler explains that Unicode allows users to embed 'secret ...

Oxford Dictionaries’ 2015 Word of the Year wasn’t a word at all. It was an emoji, one of the tiny pictographs that have come to dominate communications on social media and messaging apps. An evolution ...

Want an emoji to be included on your phone? It's a lot of work. Credit: MIGUEL MEDINA/AFP/Getty Images Emojis are a ubiquitous way to communicate in this day and age, but you've probably wondered -- ...

Language evolves. And perhaps today’s most quickly evolving language is emoji, more and more of which are added each year in response to how we use the quirky symbols and which new ones we want. Today ...

bisexual flag emoji Credit: mashable composite of flag image by Creative Photo Corner/shutterstock; no symbol by outsideclick/shutterstock; emoji by unicode Last year ...

Twenty-six years ago, two brothers decided their native language needed a new alphabet. The scripts they’d been using to read and write their native Fulani, an African language spoken by at least 40 ...