Have you ever heard of FINDSTR and Select-String? Select-String is a cmdlet that is used to search text & the patterns in input strings & files. It is similar to grep on Linux & FINDSTR on Windows. In ...

Here we explain a little bit about Unicode and why we may encounter UnicodeDecodeError or UnicodeEncodeError exceptions. While much of the world runs on UTF-8 these ...

A malicious package in the Node Package Manager index uses invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious code and Google Calendar links to host the URL for the command-and-control location. The ...

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 ...

What if there was a way to sneak malicious instructions into Claude, Copilot, or other top-name AI chatbots and get confidential data out of them by using characters large language models can ...

This is a header-only C++ library containing some helper functions to convert Unicode strings to upper and lower cases. Related blog post: https://giodicanio.com/2024 ...

February 14, 2024, 1:52 PM · Did you know that the storied virtuoso Niccolò Paganini was actually the first violinist to endorse Pirastro strings, back in the early 19th century? This was just one ...

Text has long been customizable in Xcode when creating software for Apple's platforms. Now, String catalogs make it even easier to localize your app to multiple languages. Ever since macOS shipped in ...

When you’re restricted to ASCII, how can you represent more complex things like emojis or non-Latin characters? One answer is Punycode, which is a way to represent Unicode characters in ASCII. However ...

Growing up, Vaishnavi Murthy would often visit her grandfather’s 500-year-old home in Mangaluru, a coastal city in southern India over 200 miles west from Bengaluru. Shelves had been carved into the ...