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Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of text. These are characters which can be built from multiple glyphs, but they also have a pre ...
Unicode encompasses scripts used by languages, symbols for scientific notation, emoji, and other kinds of marks. The standard currently includes nearly 150,000 unique characters, each with its own ...
According to sickestdancer98, the Unicode characters wreak havoc on the notification banner, which attempts to present the text and crashes in the process when it can’t display the characters.
Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts.
What Unicode was really, really effective at was identifying a problem that existed. But in some ways, the accessible part of it has been left by the wayside.
Unicode 16.0 also adds support for seven new modern and historical scripts: the West African Garay alphabet; the Gurung Khema, Kirat Rai, Ol Onal, and Sunuwar scripts from Northeast India and ...
Unicode 15.1 now supports 149,813 unique characters. Of those, 3,782 are emoji. Related Stories. High-fives, colorful hearts, and a horrible goose top a short list of new emoji ...
Uh oh! Another Unicode attack is messing up a popular messaging platform. This time it’s Apple’s own Messages app being hit by what has come to be called the “Black Dot” bug. We know ...
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 ...
Unicode has also paused emoji proposal submissions until April 2021 to revise the submission form — which may impact the future of not only the bi flag emoji, but other queer flag emoji.