Chrome, Firefox, and Opera users beware: This isn’t the apple.com you want Unicode sleight of hand makes it hard for even savvy users to detect impostor sites.

All they need to do is use Punycode, which relies on ASCII characters to convey foreign characters. The Punycode domain “xn--pple-43d.com” is equivalent to “apple.com”, for example. As long as a web ...

The trick employed by the site is to use Unicode characters that look the same as the appropriate ASCII characters for the site impersonated, explains researcher Xudong Zheng.

The URL I’ve linked to isn’t the real Apple technology company that makes shiny iPhones, Homepods, and iMacs. Instead, it’s a Unicode domain which – rather than using the conventional ASCII characters ...

Way back in 2017, a security researcher created a fake apple.com website where the URL looked completely correct. The trick was that the domain he registered used a unicode character that looks ...

As news spreads that Apple had a role in blocking the rifle emoji from being released through Unicode 9.0., many are celebrating the efforts of all companies who voted to nix it on behalf of ...

Unicode outpaces ASCII for encoding Web site text, and life gets easier for Google and others that grapple with an increasingly international Internet. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code ...

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 ...

However, starting in the early 1980s, American computer companies began to consider their own solutions to the problem of supporting multilingual character sets and codes. This work eventually became ...