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Transport and Map Symbols is a Unicode block containing transportation and map icons, largely for compatibility with Japanese telephone carriers' emoji implementations of Shift JIS, and to encode characters in the Wingdings and Wingdings 2 character sets.
Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows from version 3.1 [4] until Windows Vista/Server 2008, and also in a number of application packages of that era. [5] The Wingdings trademark is owned by Microsoft, [4] and the design and glyph order was awarded U.S. Design Patent D341848 in 1993. [6] The patent ...
Moore, Lisa (2008-12-02), "Consensus 117-C23", UTC #117 Minutes, Change the name of U+26EF LIGHTHOUSE to U+26EF MAP SYMBOL FOR LIGHTHOUSE. L2/09-064 Scherer, Markus (2009-01-29), Request to change some ARIB/AMD6 character names and a code point
Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats (or typographical ornaments, like the FLORAL HEART character). Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a policy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text", [3] and thus no further ...
Suignard, Michel (2012-10-13), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols: L2/12-368: N4384: Suignard, Michel (2012-11-06), Status of encoding of Wingdings and Webdings Symbols: L2/12-086: N4223: Requests regarding the Wingdings/Webdings characters in ISO/IEC 10646 PDAM 1.2, 2012-12-27
A secondary character map program is accessible in a text field on Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers, using the keyboard shortcut ⊞ Win+., or the 😀 key in Windows 10's virtual touch keyboard, which is mainly used for the purposes of using emoji, but also allows access to a smaller set of special characters.
Code chart ∣ Web page Note : [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Geometric Shapes Extended is a Unicode block containing Webdings / Wingdings symbols, mostly different weights of squares , crosses , and saltires , and different weights of variously spoked asterisks , stars , and various color squares and circles for emoji.
Miscellaneous Technical is a Unicode block ranging from U+2300 to U+23FF. It contains various common symbols which are related to and used in the various technical, programming language, and academic professions.