Unicode, the character-encoding standard that underpins a vast amount of the Internet and many computing applications, has been updated to include an additional 250 “emoji” and several other updates.

Emoji don’t appear out of nowhere. They’re managed by a governing body of the internet known as the Unicode Consortium, which sets encoding standards for characters so that they appear mostly ...

You might get a Microsoft Word 2007 email attachment from friends, co-workers or others - especially someone from another country - that can't be read. The text file may contain unusual strings of ...