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The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
Use a special-character link to enter a Unicode character. Links are available under Special characters above the edit window, and below the buttons at the bottom of the edit window (for more information on the latter, see Help:CharInsert). Clicking a special-character link enters that character at the current position of the cursor in the edit ...
Alan Wood's Unicode resources—comprehensive resource with character test pages for all Unicode ranges, as well as OS-specific Unicode support information and links to fonts and utilities; Unicode Converter - Decimal, text, URL, and unicode converter—conversion between copy-pasteable characters, Unicode notation, html, percent encodings and ...
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. A numeric character reference uses the ...
Useful links for researching Unicode characters: Unicode.org charts in PDF format, showing the U+ hex values. Fileformat.info search, to search by name (whole or partial), by U+ hex value or decimal value, or by the font symbol (copy-paste it). Extra information provided per character. One character only. branah.com's a multi-character Unicode ...
Determines Character as shown, Name, anchors. Use normalised "000A" (uppercase) notation. |link= link to article, will link from (first) name; optional |gencat= Generic Category, Px by list definition |script= character script property |style= large → double cell height, for example § U+104C: ၌
In Unicode, diacritics are always added after the main character (in contrast to some older combining character sets such as ANSEL), and it is possible to add several diacritics to the same character, including stacked diacritics above and below, though some systems may not render these well.
The Unicode Standard states that "The universe of symbols is rich and open-ended," but that in order to be considered, a symbol must have a "demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text." [1] This makes the issue of what symbols to encode and how symbols should be encoded more complicated than the issues surrounding writing ...