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Template documentation {{ Unicode chart Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A }} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block. Usage
Character Map is a utility included with Microsoft Windows operating systems and is used to view the characters in any installed font, to check what keyboard input is used to enter those characters, and to copy characters to the clipboard in lieu of typing them. [1]
English: US-ASCII (1967) Code Chart. "SUB" (column 1 / row 10) and other symbols were introduced with the 1967 revision. Control Characters: (see File:US ASCII Control Character Symbols.png )
Windows code pages are sets of characters or code pages (known as character encodings in other operating systems) used in Microsoft Windows from the 1980s and 1990s. Windows code pages were gradually superseded when Unicode was implemented in Windows, [citation needed] although they are still supported both within Windows and other platforms, and still apply when Alt code shortcuts are used.
Template documentation {{ Unicode chart Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs }} provides a table listing the characters in the Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs block of Unicode. The display can be changed to show only rows containing emoticons using an optional parameter.
ASCII was incorporated into the Unicode (1991) character set as the first 128 symbols, so the 7-bit ASCII characters have the same numeric codes in both sets. This allows UTF-8 to be backward compatible with 7-bit ASCII, as a UTF-8 file containing only ASCII characters is identical to an ASCII file containing the same sequence of characters.
HTML and XML provide ways to reference Unicode characters when the characters themselves either cannot or should not be used. A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name.
Microsoft's Shift JIS variant is known simply as "Code page 932" on Microsoft Windows, however this is ambiguous as IBM's code page 932, while also a Shift JIS variant, lacks the NEC and NEC-selected double-byte vendor extensions which are present in Microsoft's variant (although both include the IBM extensions) and preserves the 1978 ordering of JIS X 0208.