With multi-byte, variable-width character strings, the usual functions like strlen fall apart. Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of text.

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

The Unicode standard, meanwhile, is itself constantly being revised and extended. At the same time, Windows users are getting built-in language and Unicode support that in some respects is light-years ...

Back in the way, there were some hebrew fonts that weren't unicode, and if you typed 'a' it would print the first character of the hebrew alphabet, aleph, and if you typed 'b' it would print the ...

Displaying Unicode in Notepad The quickest way to add Unicode text to a Notepad document is to paste it there.

It was Iravatham Mahadevan’s ‘Early Tamil Epigraphy’ that opened doors to Tamil-Brahmi, the earliest script for old Tamil. But it was only after the development of a Unicode font that the ...

Coimbatore: While the Unicode font system is being widely used across several platforms to compute in Tamil, an 84-year-old Tamil scholar has raised i.

Myanmar hopes to complete its migration from its use of Zawgyi font to the adoption of a unified system of fonts that conform to the international standard called Unicode.

Gangtok, Jan. 15: The Lepcha script will be covered by Unicode soon. The development will boost efforts to preserve the knowledge base of Sikkim’s original inhabitants in the electronic age. “Several ...

What’s new is the grand unification into a single character set embracing all characters at once. In other words, Unicode would do away with character set variations across systems and fonts. In fact, ...