Paul Butler tests and demonstrates the flexibility of encoding hidden messages within Unicode characters, including emoji.
With multi-byte, variable-width character strings, the usual functions like strlen fall apart. Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison and collation of text.
A new JavaScript obfuscation method utilizing invisible Unicode characters to represent binary values is being actively ...
For simple Latin characters (alphabet), there is a one-to-one correspondence between Unicode code points and the characters displayed on a device screen, for example, 'U+0067' represents the ...
The concept revolves around Unicode's system of representing text as a sequence of codepoints, with each codepoint being a ...
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How to hide secret messages in emoji
Using variation selectors, you can conceal messages of arbitrary length within emoji, or indeed any unicode character. "To be ...