Unicode says that it’s currently leaving about 40 percent of people around the globe without the ability to digitally communicate in their native language. Only “a handful” of African ...

Unicode works by providing the same "codepoint" for each alphabet letter, character or symbol in all supported languages and across all platforms. If a Web site is presented in Unicode, newer ...

Over 2,000 new Hieroglyphs may soon be available for use on cell phones, computers, and other digital devices. The Unicode Consortium recently released a revised draft of standards for encoding ...

The Unicode standard works by assigning a unique code consisting of letters and numbers to represent every character in every language the standard supports. However, due to the number of ...

Two activists want the Unicode Consortium to add the American Sign Language handshape for "I love you" to Unicode 9.

Meanwhile, Hebrew Unicode RTL isn't being supported in Office 2011, Weaks said. If you will think outside the Office suite box, there are Unicode alternatives for the Mac.

Displaying Unicode in Notepad. If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that ...

The Unicode Consortium, the non-profit responsible for creating the universal standard of digital characters and numbers, is considering encoding “Hanifi Rohingya,” a writing system developed ...

2016 is an Olympics Summer year and with this in mind, considering corporate sponsorship and public awareness, many of the new characters in the Unicode 9.0 language are associated with the sports ...