there was no such thing as plain text, and character code information was required to decipher text. However, in the 20 years until 2023, the usage rate of Unicode has reached 98% thanks to things ...

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 ...

Academic cybersecurity researchers have flagged a strange vulnerability that affects most computer code compilers, and many software development environments. Discovered by researchers at the ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...