The range of characters that can be represented by Unicode is truly bewildering. If there’s a symbol that was ever used to represent a sound or a concept anywhere in the world, chances are pretty good ...

Earlier this week, software engineer Paul Butler published a blog post titled "Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji." In it, he showcased a tool he created to allow you to do this yourself and ...

Could malicious backdoors be hiding in your code, that otherwise appears perfectly clean to the human eye and text editors alike? A security researcher has shed light on how invisible characters can ...

Imagine sending a simple emoji in a text message—just a cheerful smiley face or a thumbs-up—without a second thought. Now, what if I told you that same emoji could secretly carry hidden instructions ...

The Unicode Consortium has just announced the release of version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard, the list of characters "which specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and ...