Ever opened a file or email and seen strange symbols or jumbled text? This post shows how to change the encoding in Excel, ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Unicode Africa, a newly launched pan-African cloud service provider, on Monday announced its entry into the continent’s fast-growing $5 billion cloud computing market, pledging to keep African data ...

I assume Heidi uses varchar literals to insert data into MSSQL. You cannot do this. You cannot do that because varchar literals are lossy when they contain data outside of the current codepage. For ...

In the world of relational databases, VARCHAR is one of the most commonly used string data types, primarily used for storing variable-length character data. However, for many beginners, the ...

The new emoji will be part of the Unicode 17.0 release, which is scheduled for this fall. They won’t be available when iOS 26 arrives in September, however. Since Apple adopts its own style for new ...

Ska heads have been waiting for this: A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other ...

The Unicode Consortium has announced that it's adding what's essentially a Bigfoot emoji to the open Unicode standard this fall. The famous cryptid will appear as "Hairy Creature" alongside a ...

I'm experiencing an issue with EMS SQL Management Studio for MySQL on Windows. Specifically, Unicode characters (such as those in non-Latin scripts) are not rendering correctly in the result sets of ...

In his blog, security researcher and curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg has drawn attention to a security problem caused by Unicode fraud that is difficult for reviewers, mergers, and CI jobs to ...

At Microsoft Build, SQL Server 2025 enters public preview with major enhancements in AI integration, performance, reliability and developer tools -- reaffirming Microsoft’s continued investment in its ...