If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

In the first part of this article, I introduced you to Unicode, a grand unification scheme whereby every character in every writing system would be represented by a unique value, up to a potential one ...

Emojis may be a fairly new phenomenon, but Unicode has been working on standardizing the encoding of hundreds of languages for more than twenty years. The group began its work “to replace what was a ...

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 ...

In the latest Windows 10 Insider build, Microsoft has released a new version of Notepad that includes changes that bring it closer to what we have come to expect from modern text file editors. These ...

Quite often, when a sender sends a mail to us via Outlook, we do not see the message but some unreadable characters. If you regularly see some strange or incorrect characters in your Outlook mail, ...