When C was being developed, ASCII itself had just been finalized ... the usual functions like strlen fall apart. Unicode’s combining characters also causes problems when it comes to comparison ...

And the results are actually pretty impressive. Imagery is rendered using Unicode 2584, a half-block character. The background and foreground color can be set per character, giving us two ...

and being able to “smuggle” the prompt with “special Unicode characters that mirror ASCII but are actually not visible in the user interface.” As the researchers at Embrace the Red ...

‘B’ is the second and so on, all the way up to ‘Z’, which is the 26th letter. In ASCII, each character has its own assigned number. For example: ...