Unicode outpaces ASCII for encoding Web site text, and life gets easier for Google and others that grapple with an increasingly international Internet.

ISO and Unicode Upon its introduction, ASCII quickly became a de facto standard around the world. However, the original ASCII didn't include all of the special characters (such as á , ê , and ü ) that ...

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 ...

Unicode could be seen as a universal version of ASCII. ASCII is, after all, the American Code for Information Interchange, and its first iteration included the English-language alphabet and ...

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.

And if you want to get your hands dirty with Unicode glyphs, check out [Roman Czyborra]’s tools here, which are simple command line tools that let you easily experiment using ASCII art.

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.