Academic cybersecurity researchers have flagged a strange vulnerability that affects most computer code compilers, and many software development environments. Discovered by researchers at the ...

there was no such thing as plain text, and character code information was required to decipher text. However, in the 20 years until 2023, the usage rate of Unicode has reached 98% thanks to things ...

Unicode is a standard for character encoding that can represent a wide variety of characters used around the world. Software engineer Paul Butler explains that Unicode allows users to embed 'secret ...

Most readers will have at least some passing familiarity with the terms ‘Unicode’ and ‘UTF-8’, but what is really behind them? At their core they refer to character encoding schemes, also known as ...

Microsoft has increased the maximum URL path length for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business subscribers. The old "maxpath" limit was 256 Unicode code units, but it now has been expanded to 400 ...