The Unicode standard is a numbering system; fonts require individual drawings to represent characters.

The character set is used in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), which is used to create web pages. Thanks to Unicode, a special HTML code sequence reverses the order of text from left to right.

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 pr… ...

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.