The problem isn’t actually the Unicode control characters themselves but rather the characters running the Unicode Consortium, along with the various top hardware and software companies. These ...

This isn’t our first time looking at how Unicode can cause security problems, and won’t be our last. The problem here is the Unicode characters that mark text as left-to-right and right-to-left.

As a result, the Unicode Transformation Format 8 (UTF-8) encoding supports 2 31 code points, with most characters in the current Unicode character set requiring generally one or two bytes each.

After the injected RTLO control character, the URL gets reversed due to treating it as a "right-to-left" language (Arabic, Hebrew, etc.), so the threat actor has to consider when registering the ...

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, new "lesser-used and historic scripts," and extended ...

Unicode is launching a fund-raising campaign called "Adopt-a-Character," which allows you to adopt any emoji, letter, number, or symbol on the keyboard. Different characters cost different amounts.

If you know this Unicode number, you can get Apple to display it in the Character Viewer. (Press the on newer Apple keyboards or press Command-Control-spacebar to bring it up.) ...

Bidirectional control characters in Mac OS X bug Gabi Danon writes: "I have found the cause for a problem which affects many users of the Hebrew Language Kit: Unicode control characters are ...