Yet another Unicode bug has been discovered that is capable of crashing apps and operating systems, ranging from WhatsApp on Android to iMessage on iOS. We won't share the exact string, to prevent it ...

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...

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I need a function that will convert any string into unicode; that supports things like letters with accents and whatnot.<BR><BR>I might have my terminology wrong... this could be why my Google ...

A bug in Apple’s CoreText rendering engine in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 causes any apps that try to render a string of Arabic characters to crash on sight. The string of characters which can trigger the bug ...

Is there some trick to get translate to work right with unicode strings? I finally gave up in frustration and just used replace as well - horribly inefficient but at least it works.