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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.

Июл 4, 2023

Unicode 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.

Июн 13, 2023

CJK 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.

Май 30, 2023

How 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.

Май 16, 2023

Bidirectional 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.

Апр 25, 2023

Unicode Properties and Categories: Classifying Every Character

Explore Unicode General Categories, Script property, and other character properties used in regex, text processing, and internationalization.

Апр 11, 2023

Unicode 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.

Мар 28, 2023

Unicode 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.

Мар 14, 2023

Unicode 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.

Фев 28, 2023

What 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.

Фев 14, 2023