Unicode

Evidence (8)

• 3Hacker News·10/5/2026research
  Why plain text remains a durable computing format

  This article argues that plain text remains one of the most reliable formats for long-term readability because it is simple, widely supported, and independent of specific applications. It highlights how plain text underpins source code, configuration files, logs, and many web-related formats, making it easy to inspect, search, edit, and preserve across systems.

• 8Hacker News·9/26/2026regulation
  Banks and Credit Unions Join Apple Pay Fee Antitrust Suit

  A U.S. judge certified a class of banks and credit unions in an antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of blocking tap-to-pay competition and charging fees on Apple Pay transactions. The court also allowed expert testimony that Apple may hold monopoly power in the mobile wallet market, while Apple has since expanded NFC access for third-party contactless payments in several regions.

• 2Hacker News·9/20/2026research
  UTF-8000 Proposal Extends UTF-8 Encoding Ideas

  The post introduces UTF-8000, a speculative encoding scheme that extends UTF-8 concepts to support arbitrarily large code units using multiple start bytes. It explains the byte structure, self-synchronization behavior, and special cases inherited from UTF-8, presenting the idea as an exaggerated technical exploration rather than a standard proposal.

• 8The New Stack·9/4/2026security
  Microsoft Spotlights Unicode Tag Phishing Tactic

  Microsoft said a phishing campaign used invisible Unicode tag characters to break up keywords such as “funding,” “loan,” and “credit,” helping messages evade spam filters and ML-based classifiers. The same character-range trick can also affect AI and NLP systems because tokenizers may process the text differently than humans see it, so Microsoft recommends removing or comparing tagged text before it reaches models.

• 3Hacker News·8/15/2026research
  The ghost characters hidden in Unicode

  The article examines Japanese “ghost characters” that entered the JIS X 0208 character set through cataloging mistakes and ambiguous source records. Some were later propagated into Unicode through CJK unification, making accidental characters part of modern computing. It highlights how small documentation errors can become permanently embedded in global standards.

• 7Hacker News·8/11/2026framework_update
  Chicken Scheme 6.0 adds R7RS support and UTF-8 core changes

  Chicken Scheme 6.0 is a major language/runtime update that brings the core system in line with R7RS small and switches internal string handling to UTF-8. It also renames and expands several libraries, changes file and port APIs, and updates process and bytevector handling for better standards compatibility.

• 3Hacker News·8/1/2026product_launch
  Randall Hyde announces Volume 2 of The Art of 64-Bit Assembly

  Randall Hyde has announced the second volume of The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, focused on machine-level object-oriented programming, exceptions, and concurrency on Windows using MASM. The book covers vtables, SEH, thunks, closures, coroutines, iterators, and Unicode string handling with an emphasis on building these mechanisms from first principles.

• 7Hacker News·7/8/2026research
  Unicode transliteration rules shown to be Turing-complete

  A Hacker News post describes a proof that UTS #35 transliteration rules, as implemented in ICU, can express universal computation under unbounded semantics. The article compiles a 2-tag system into transliteration rules and demonstrates the idea with a Collatz-function example, noting that termination for a given rule file and input is undecidable.