The basic underlying problem is that coders and their tooling assume that code is mostly ASCII, when in reality it is Unicode, which most tools don't handle properly.

I'm just waiting for Bidi-injection toolchain injections…

#coding #unicode #texteditor #toolchain #computersecurity […]

When I say "IT mostly just runs in circles" I mean it: arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/supply-...

This article from 2026 describes something I've been fighting with ~17 years ago. Sure, slightly more clever payload and […]

À la découverte du monde au travers de l’Unicode — Paris Web 161 scripts et 154 998 caractères composent le standard Unicode. Il permet aux systèmes informatiques de communiquer les mêmes éléments typographiques grâce à un adressage unique. Unicode est …

L’année dernière, Loïc Marleix nous a raconté l’histoire du standard informatique Unicode, utilisé par tout le monde à travers le globe dans nos communications quotidiennes. Visionnez sa conférence en ligne.

www.paris-web.fr/2025/confere...

#unicode #standards #typographie #internationalisation

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories https://arstechni.ca #supplychainattacks #publicuseareas #Security #Unicode #Biz&IT

⍼って、方位角の記号だった🤯 Sextantから来てるのか…🔭 こういうマイナーな記号、面白いね！✨ #Unicode #記号 #方位角

U237C 方位角 U237C Is Azimuth (ionathan.ch) 06:33  ↑ 104 HN Points

Mystery solved https://ionathan.ch/2026/02/16/angzarr.html #unicode #typography

Comment utiliser des polices spéciales sur les réseaux sociaux ? B̵a̵r̵r̵é̵, à sɹǝʌuǝ,ן, ⓓⓐⓝⓢ ⓓⓔⓢ ⓡⓞⓝⓓⓢ... Comment utiliser des styles et des polices spéciales sur les réseaux sociaux ?

Marre des polices classiques sur les réseaux sociaux ? Découvrez comment styliser vos textes avec des caractères Unicode uniques ! Prêt à sortir du lot ? #Unicode #RéseauxSociaux #Style #Archive

EmojiKitchen Emoji of a Raccoon in a Trash Can holding a Champagne bottle with the cork popping

#HotTake: #EmojiKitchen would be a really good way to extend #Emoji, and maybe there should be something added to the #unicode standard to procedurally extend your emoji like that with another one, because being able to specify something as specific as "raccoon in […]

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.....aaaand #Unicode is thankfully back in #PokemonGo! Gotta catch 'em all!

Seriously, Apple, unicode. We don’t need/want more emoji. We want better functionality.

#apple #unicode #failure

Durdraw is an #ASCII #Unicode and #ANSI art editor for UNIX-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc). It runs in modern Utf-8 terminals and supports high speed frame animation, 256 and 16 color modes, mouse drawing and paint brushes.
statusl.ink/durdrawisana...

I've written up the process of getting those missing half-star symbols onto a web page by embedding a font that supports them.

It's definitely overkill for this use case, but I wanted to see what it would take, and I figured it was worth saving the information. If at some point I decide I need […]

meme: "Han Unification" what you think happened: (a Han Dynasty mural depicting a bloody battle) what actually happened: (a photo of a Unicode Consortium meeting)

Han Unification: not violent, just really inconvenient

#unicode #chinese #history #classicalchinese #linguistics

Invisible Unicode Attack: Why Tooled AIs Are Vulnerable On your screen, it’s a boring trivia question: “What planet is known as the Red Planet?” Inside the model, that same line contains 96 extra characters your eyes never see, zero‑width spaces and non‑joiners encoding a different answer, or worse, a hidden command. That’s the invisible Unicode attack: the text looks benign to you, but to a tooled-up AI it’s an executable channel.

Invisible Unicode can hide commands in plain prompts. Moltwire's Reverse CAPTCHA shows tooled AIs can be hijacked. Read now. #Moltwire #ReverseCAPTCHA #Unicode

A rather dense collection of byte values in a giant list. This is a small portion of the index for an exported font, with the tables arranged in order of unicode codepoint. Several nested tables are used to make the indexing efficient on a 6502 processor, which generally favors "pages" of 256 bytes each.

A lengthy routine in assembly, partially completed, named "access glyph at codepoint." This routine's job is to index into a nested tree of tables, spanning several memory banks in the process, as the entire table is too big to fit in memory at one time.

It's a table describing the 1bpp glyph for a percent sign, along with metadata concerning that glyph's width, height, and bit depth.

"Why, I'll just decode UTF8 on an NES," I said. "It'll be the easiest option!", I said.

So if you're wondering why updates have been slow, it turns out text encoding is remarkably complicated. Who knew? Have a peek into the abyss with me.

#gamedev #programming #unicode

This #Unicode technical report (#tr58) on non-ASCII characters in urls and email addresses might be relevant for ActivityPub implementations

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr58/

Thank god there is no such thing as a⸻three em dash unicode character… #unicode

Gerade ereilte mich das Bedürfnis herauszufinden, ob es einen Unicode-Block für Braille (sog. Blindenschrift) gibt. Und natürlich gibt es den! Und jetzt frage ich mich, was macht eine Braille-Zeile oder ein Screen-Reader aus Unicode Braille? 🤯

Beispiel: ⠁⠂⠉

(Disclaimer: ich kann kein Braille […]

found a radical dragon today ⻯
and a radical ghost ⻤
and rad city ⻏
rad clothes ⻂

#typography #unicode

https://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~tomw/java/unicode.html#x2E80

found a radical dragon today ⻯
and a radical ghost ⻤
and rad city ⻏
rad clothes ⻂
#typography #unicode

www.ssec.wisc.edu/~tomw/java/u...

Text Styler Online text styler, unicode converter and ASCII art generator to copy and highlight text messages, social media posts

Un outil pour styliser un texte personnalisé à l'aide de caractères unicodes.

🔗 https://textstyler.com/

#unicode #utf8 #texte #style

Unisymbol Set Editor v1.0 for windows is out.
I'm so happy. 😋

Download site: unisymbol.com

#unisymbol #ascii #unicode #utf8 #utf16 #utf32 #symbol #symbols #letter #letters #alphabet #alphabets

Whoa, I just noticed:

#Unicode Technical Standard #58 was published two weeks ago!

Unicode Link Detection and Formatting:
URLs and Email Addresses
https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr58/

【This document specifies two consistent, standardized mechanisms that address [URL] problems, consisting of […]

This is some extreme ones, about 100 available.
𝔢 𝔭𝔩𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔟𝔲𝔰 𝔲𝔫𝔲𝔪
𝖾 𝗉𝗅𝗎𝗋𝗂𝖻𝗎𝗌 𝗎𝗇𝗎𝗆
ǝ dןnɹıqns nunɯ
𝓔 🅿👢⛎🌱🕴🅱⛎💲 ⛎🥄⛎Ⓜ
ｅ ｐｌｕｒｉｂｕｓ ｕｎｕｍ
𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘶𝘮
𝚎 𝚙𝚕𝚞𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚞𝚜 𝚞𝚗𝚞𝚖
⒠ ⒫⒧⒰⒭⒤⒝⒰⒮ ⒰⒩⒰⒨
𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕓𝕦𝕤 𝕦𝕟𝕦𝕞

͓̽e͓̽ ͓̽p͓͓̽̽l͓͓̽̽u͓͓̽̽r͓͓̽̽i͓͓̽̽b͓͓̽̽u͓͓̽̽s͓̽ ͓̽u͓͓̽̽n͓͓̽̽u͓͓̽̽m͓̽

e̳̿͟͞ p̳̿͟͞l̳̿͟͞u̳̿͟͞r̳̿͟͞i̳̿͟͞b̳̿͟͞u̳̿͟͞s̳̿͟͞ u̳̿͟͞n̳̿͟͞u̳̿͟͞m̳̿͟͞

̴e̴ ̴p̴̴l̴̴u̴̴r̴̴i̴̴b̴̴u̴̴s̴ ̴u̴̴n̴̴u̴̴m̴
̳e̳ ̳p̳̳l̳̳u̳̳r̳̳i̳̳b̳̳u̳̳s̳ ̳u̳̳n̳̳u̳̳m̳

̾e̾ ̾p̾̾l̾̾u̾̾r̾̾i̾̾b̾̾u̾̾s̾ ̾u̾̾n̾̾u̾̾m̾
#Dev #Unicode #Fonts

Finally figured out why I couldn't use pacman for a week. My text editor inserted a BOM at the start of the config file and pacman couldn't handle that. #archlinux #unicode

The UAE Dirham symbol has been added/is being added to Unicode 18.0! We should soon see the new symbol used to represent dirhams instead of AED or Dhs/Dh.

#Unicode #UAE #UnitedArabEmirates

The 2026/2027 Emoji List Could Change This Week The draft list of emoji recommendations for Emoji 18.0 may be revised this week. The Emoji Standard & Research Working Group (ESR) is recommending that Face With Squinting Eyes be replaced by a Cracking Face emoji.

Gotta say, I’m giving #Unicode’s #Emoji working group the squinty-eye over their decision to replace a highly useful skepticism signifier with something akin to the melting face.
blog.emojipedia.org/the-2026-2027-emoji-list...

Microsoft Brings Camera Controls and Emoji 16.0 to Windows 11 Insiders Microsoft has released Windows 11 builds to Dev and Beta Insiders with identical features including pan and tilt camera controls and Emoji 16.0 support.

winbuzzer.com/2026/02/10/m...

Microsoft Brings Camera Controls and Emoji 16.0 to Windows 11 Insiders

#WindowsInsiderProgram #Microsoft #Windows11 #Windows #Emoji #Unicode #DevChannel #BetaChannel #BetaInsiders

People are now discovering the paper emoji contains actual, readable text Image: Наталья Мишинцева | Dreamstime.com Social media users are zooming in on the page-facing-up emoji and, as it turns out, the fine print is real. What looks like a simple sheet is actually packed ...

The fine print exists: People are magnifying the paper emoji and finding a whole hidden letter. #Unicode #Apple #Samsung #TechNews #Emoji community.designtaxi.com/topic/23273-...

Most Java input validation assumes ASCII-era rules.
Unicode breaks that assumption.

A deep dive into Unicode security:
• invisible characters
• homograph attacks
• BiDi overrides
• production-grade defenses in Quarkus

buff.ly/4sTgaBx

#Java #Quarkus #Unicode #SecurityEngineering #BackendDev