A code in a Python package carried more than meets the eye. ... covering more than 100,000 characters, ... However, should the abuse of Unicode for hiding malicious Python code become a trend, ...

Unicode 7.0 adds 2,834 new characters to the existing list of 110,187 characters defined by Unicode 6.3, including new symbols for currency, ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced version 7.0 of the Unicode character-encoding standard, bringing an additional 2,834 new characters and 250 new emojis to its already extensive character set.