Code Points
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host of characters codepoints.net
, that add to the characters before. Those are called Combining Marks. Unicode provides a handy FAQ on the details, but in a nutshell: If you add one after a character, it is placed on top of that previous one. So, a + ̊ = å. This may lead to all kinds of funny problems…
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Mahjong tiles codepoints.net
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Domino tiles codepoints.net
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Box Drawing codepoints.net
(U+2500 to U+257F) and Block Elements (U+2580 to U+259F) cover most of your monospace command-line visualization needs.
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U+FFFD codepoints.net
REPLACEMENT CHARACTER - when a character cannot be displayed (e.g., decoding an erroneous UTF-8 sequency), this code point steps into the breach.
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U+FF03 codepoints.net
FULLWIDTH NUMBER SIGN - it is the "Japanese Hashtag" ＃. Sites like Twitter accept it as equivalent to the regular # (U+0023).
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U+FEFF codepoints.net
ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE - it’s name suggests, that it can be used like U+2060 WORD JOINER. And in fact the latter was introduced to inherit its semantics. This is because U+FEFF had become a special beacon called the byte order mark, that was placed on the beginning of some…
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U+FE0F codepoints.net
VARIATION SELECTOR-16 - force colorful emoji. If this code point follows an emoji, an explicit colorful rendering of the emoji is requested (if the client supports it).
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U+FE0E codepoints.net
VARIATION SELECTOR-15 - force black-&-white emoji. If this code point follows an emoji, an explicit monochrome rendering of the emoji is requested (if the client supports it).
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U+FDFA codepoints.net
ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE WASALLAM - longest decomposition form: 18 characters.
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U+F8FF codepoints.net
PRIVATE USE CODEPOINT - this private use code point is rendered as Apple logo on many Apple devices.
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U+D800 codepoints.net
to U+DFFF - surrogate code points. They are only reserved to ease UTF-16 encoding.
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妛 codepoints.net
, 挧, 暃, 椦, 槞, 蟐, 袮, 閠, 駲, 墸, 壥, and 彁. These so-called “ghost characters” came to Unicode via the Japanese JIS standard, where they were added, because they were mis-read or misinterpreted from other signs, when JIS was compiled from original printed text sources.
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U+5146 codepoints.net
and U+16B61 - code points that represent the highest “single-digit” number. In both cases that’s 1,000,000,000,000, a trillion.
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U+3106C codepoints.net
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH 3106C - the character with the most strokes: 84. Take your time to write this one!
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U+2E2E codepoints.net
REVERSED QUESTION MARK - the “irony mark” to express irony/sarcasm. A useful character⸮
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U+2800 codepoints.net
BRAILLE PATTERN BLANK - A Braille pattern that has zero of its six or eight dots filled in. According to the standard: “* while this character is imaged as a fixed-width blank in many fonts, it does not act as a space” Essentially it is rendered as white-space, but since it is…
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Draughts (or checkers) pieces codepoints.net
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Go pieces codepoints.net
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Die faces codepoints.net
and a nice die emoji.
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Card suits codepoints.net
and even a whole deck of cards complete with joker and back of card.
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Chess figures codepoints.net
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Shogi pieces codepoints.net
, a Japanese variant of chess.
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U+2060 codepoints.net
WORD JOINER - the same as U+00A0, but completely invisible. Good for writing @font-face on Twitter.
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U+202D codepoints.net
and U+202E - change the text direction. Relevant XKCD:
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U+200D codepoints.net
ZERO WIDTH JOINER - force adjacent characters to be joined together (e.g., arabic characters or supported emoji). Apple uses this to compose some emoji like different families.
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U+200B codepoints.net
ZERO WIDTH SPACE - the inverse to U+00A0: create no space, but allow word breaking.
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U+1F918 codepoints.net
SIGN OF THE HORNS - Rock on! 🤘
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U+1F596 codepoints.net
RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS - the Vulcan salute. Live long and prosper! 🖖
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U+1F574 codepoints.net
MAN IN BUSINESS SUIT LEVITATING - A rather curious character, that only made it into Unicode for its appearance in the Webdings font (for reasons of backwards compatibility).
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