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 schemes, also known as ...

The Chinese language is one of the most complex and comprehensive languages in the world. Sometimes I feel lucky to be Chinese, specifically when I see some of my foreign friends struggle to learn the ...

The Unicode Consortium (Unicode Inc. ) is a non-profit organization that coordinates the development of the Unicode standard. Its stated goal is to eventually replace existing character encoding ...