A new JavaScript obfuscation method utilizing invisible Unicode characters to represent binary values is being actively abused in phishing attacks targeting affiliates of an American political ...

Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing. A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code channel.

New phishing campaigns attempt to evade detection by constructing rogue QR codes with special ASCII characters and load phishing pages locally using the local blob URL feature in browsers.

Java programs are written in Unicode (§3.1), but lexical translations are provided (§3.2) so that Unicode escapes (§3.3) can be used to include any Unicode character using only ASCII characters. Line ...

AFAICT, because 99.9% of Java code is plain ASCII, the check is rather "dumb" and doesn't try to only flag problematic chars.

Because all strings pass through Java at some point it can be useful to handle them with Unicode support (since Java's internal string representation is UTF-8 encoded). In particular, screens display ...

Even though the introduction of Unicode technically solved this problem, you can still encounter situations in which some or all of your Unicode characters will not display properly in Java programs.

ISO and Unicode Upon its introduction, ASCII quickly became a de facto standard around the world. However, the original ASCII didn't include all of the special characters (such as á , ê , and ü ) that ...

Unicode outpaces ASCII for encoding Web site text, and life gets easier for Google and others that grapple with an increasingly international Internet.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that string ...