Unicode Character Set

This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on the Unicode character set. Topics including introduction of Unicode standard, example characters, history of releases, blocks of code points.

What Is Unicode

Examples of Unicode Characters

Unique Features of Unicode

Unicode Standard Releases

Code Point Blocks

Unicode 13.0 Character Samples

Unicode 8.0 Character Samples

Unicode 7.0 Character Samples

Unicode 6.0 Character Samples

Unicode 5.0 Character Samples

Unicode 4.0 Character Samples

Conclusions:

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Character Sets and Encodings

 ASCII Character Set and Encoding

 GB2312 Character Set and Encoding

 GB18030 Character Set and Encoding

 JIS X0208 Character Set and Encodings

Unicode Character Set

 UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format - 8-Bit)

 UTF-16, UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE Encodings

 UTF-32, UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE Encodings

 Python Language and Unicode Characters

 Java Language and Unicode Characters

 Character Encoding in Java

 Character Set Encoding Maps

 Encoding Conversion Programs for Encoded Text Files

 Using Notepad as a Unicode Text Editor

 Using Microsoft Word as a Unicode Text Editor

 Using Microsoft Excel as a Unicode Text Editor

 Unicode Fonts

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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