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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.

Tháng 7 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.

Tháng 6 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.

Tháng 5 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.

Tháng 5 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.

Tháng 4 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.

Tháng 4 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.

Tháng 3 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.

Tháng 3 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.

Tháng 2 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.

Tháng 2 14, 2023