UTS #39: Unicode Security Mechanisms(unicode.org)
35 points by robin_reala | 19 comments
Unicode Technical Standard #39 specifying security mechanisms like identifier profiles, confusable detection, and mixed-script detection for Unicode text.
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10 stories tagged unicode, newest first.
Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text(datocms.com)
51 points by steffoz | 31 comments
DatoCMS blog post on handling less common scripts like Myanmar in localization, including fixing dotted-circle rendering issues with Noto fonts.
U+237C โผ Is Azimuth(ionathan.ch)
372 points by cokernel_hacker | 73 comments
Blog post explaining that the mysterious Unicode symbol U+237C โผ (Angzarr) means azimuth, per a 1950 H. Berthold AG type foundry symbol catalogue.
GNU Unifont(unifoundry.com)
326 points by remywang | 73 comments
Unifoundry's GNU Unifont page offering the bitmap font with glyphs for every printable Unicode BMP code point, plus plane charts and downloads.
UTF-8 is a brilliant design(iamvishnu.com)
777 points by vishnuharidas | 305 comments
A blog post explaining how UTF-8 encoding represents millions of characters while remaining backward compatible with ASCII.
Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji(paulbutler.org)
690 points by paulgb | 185 comments
Blog post by Paul Butler showing how arbitrary data can be hidden in an emoji or any Unicode character using variation selectors, with a decoder demo.
WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI(blog.orange.tw)
342 points by notmine1337 | 126 comments
Orange Tsai's blog post presenting WorstFit, a class of Windows vulnerabilities arising from Best-Fit character conversion between UTF-16 and ANSI code pages.
What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023(tonsky.me)
851 points by mrzool | 498 comments
Nikita Prokopov's (tonsky) blog post explaining the essentials of Unicode that software developers should know in 2023, updating Joel Spolsky's classic essay.
Unicode Character โ๐โ (U+1D54F)(compart.com)
369 points by t0m44c | 264 comments
Compart reference page for the Unicode character ๐ (U+1D54F, Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X), showing its glyph and details.
Update: U+237C โผ &Angzarr;(ionathan.ch)
380 points by g0xA52A2A | 75 comments
A blog post continuing an investigation into the origin of the Unicode character U+237C RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW (⍼).