Unicode Africa, a newly launched pan-African cloud service provider, on Monday announced its entry into the continent’s fast-growing $5 billion cloud computing market, pledging to keep African data ...

I assume Heidi uses varchar literals to insert data into MSSQL. You cannot do this. You cannot do that because varchar literals are lossy when they contain data outside of the current codepage. For ...

In the world of relational databases, VARCHAR is one of the most commonly used string data types, primarily used for storing variable-length character data. However, for many beginners, the ...

In celebration of World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium this week confirmed the new emoji characters that will be added to Unicode 17 in the fall. Emoji characters that are coming include trombone, ...

I'm experiencing an issue with EMS SQL Management Studio for MySQL on Windows. Specifically, Unicode characters (such as those in non-Latin scripts) are not rendering correctly in the result sets of ...

In his blog, security researcher and curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg has drawn attention to a security problem caused by Unicode fraud that is difficult for reviewers, mergers, and CI jobs to ...

SQL development is evolving fast, and Microsoft.Build.Sql is leading the charge. This next-generation SDK brings flexible project structures, better source control integration, automated build-time ...

In a nutshell: A recent blog post by software engineer Paul Butler has shed light on a novel technique for concealing data within Unicode characters, specifically emojis. The post explains the concept ...

Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in the future, and this week, the Unicode 17 emoji recommendations came out [PDF ...

Unicode contains characters from various languages, including the Latin alphabet, but there are only four characters that have separate types registered in addition to 'uppercase' and 'lowercase'.