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 ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this ...

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.

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.) ...

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, right-to-left characters can unintentionally reorder surrounding text, making source code difficult to read and debug. Although Unicode control characters (e.g., LRO or LRI) can offer ...

"The trick is to use Unicode control characters to reorder tokens in source code at the encoding level. These visually reordered tokens can be used to display logic that, while semantically ...

This was likely because 15.1 was only intended as a minor update to 2022's Unicode 15.0 standard. Most of the Unicode 16.0 emoji, by contrast, are their own unique characters.