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 ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8′, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding… ...

Whereas ASCII is limited to 128 or 256 characters however, Unicode supports 17 individual planes, each of which can map 65,536 characters, for a grand total of 1,114,112 possible characters.

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.