Unicode Deep Dive
Foundational concepts of the Unicode Standard — planes, encodings, normalization, properties, and the consortium behind it all.
Unicode CLDR: The Database Behind Every Localized App
Explore the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository — how CLDR powers number formatting, date patterns, collation, and pluralization worldwide.
Jul 4, 2023Unicode Version History: From 1.0 to 16.0 and Beyond
A complete history of Unicode versions — major milestones, character count growth, emoji additions, and the stability policy that keeps it all working.
Jun 13, 2023CJK Unification: How Unicode Handles Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
Learn about Han Unification in Unicode — how shared CJK ideographs are unified, the controversy it creates, and how language tags affect rendering.
May 30, 2023How Emoji Work in Unicode: From Code Points to Skin Tones
Discover how emoji are encoded in Unicode — ZWJ sequences, skin tone modifiers, variation selectors, and the emoji submission process.
May 16, 2023Bidirectional Text in Unicode: How RTL and LTR Scripts Coexist
Understand Unicode's Bidirectional Algorithm — how Arabic, Hebrew, and other RTL scripts mix with LTR text in web pages and applications.
Apr 25, 2023Unicode Properties and Categories: Classifying Every Character
Explore Unicode General Categories, Script property, and other character properties used in regex, text processing, and internationalization.
Apr 11, 2023Unicode Normalization: NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD Explained
Master Unicode normalization forms — when to use NFC vs NFD, canonical vs compatibility equivalence, and how normalization prevents bugs.
Mar 28, 2023Unicode Encodings Explained: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 Compared
Compare UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 encodings — how they work, when to use each, and why UTF-8 dominates the web.
Mar 14, 2023Unicode Planes and Blocks: How 1.1 Million Code Points Are Organized
Understand Unicode's 17 planes and hundreds of blocks — from the Basic Multilingual Plane to supplementary planes for emoji and historic scripts.
Feb 28, 2023What Is Unicode? The Universal Character Standard Explained
Learn what Unicode is, why it was created, and how it assigns a unique code point to every character in every writing system.
Feb 14, 2023