Miscellaneous
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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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U+1F4C0 codepoints.net
DVD - only code point name without any vowel (source)
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U+1F402 codepoints.net
OX - shortest name.
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U+1F3FB to U+1F3FF codepoints.net
. They are called “Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type” 1 to 6, with 1 the palest and 6 the darkest. If one of these characters follows an emoji, that emoji is meant to be rendered in the appropriate skin color of the Fitzpatrick scale. If no such modifier is added, the skin tone…
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Regional Indicator Symbols codepoints.net
U+1F1E6 to U+1F1FF resemble the 26 latin characters. They are used to create flag emoji. Since the Unicode consortium didn’t feel like getting on board with international politics, the solution to flags is to combine these 26 characters to the respective ISO code for a country…
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U+1DD2 codepoints.net
COMBINING US ABOVE - this is the most romantic code point.
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U+1D455 codepoints.net
is missing. It would be an italic small “h”. It was not encoded, because it would be identical to the Planck constant ℎ (U+210E).
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U+1680 codepoints.net
OGHAM SPACE MARK - a space that looks like a dash. Great to bring programmers close to madness: 1 + 2 === 3.
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U+10FFFF codepoints.net
(non-character) - last code point. The whole rest of its plane apart from U+10FFFE, the code points in the 0x100000-0x10FFFD range, are private use characters, guaranteed to be never filled by a future Unicode standard.
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U+0F33 codepoints.net
TIBETAN DIGIT HALF ZERO - code point that represents the lowest “single-digit” number and at the same time the only negative one, -½.
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U+037E codepoints.net
GREEK QUESTION MARK - a look-alike to the semicolon. Also a fun way to annoy developers.
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U+00AD codepoints.net
SOFT HYPHEN - (in HTML: ­) like ZERO WIDTH SPACE, but show a hyphen if (and only if) a break occurs.
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U+00A0 codepoints.net
NO-BREAK SPACE - force adjacent characters to stick together. Well known as in HTML.
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U+0080 codepoints.net
, U+0081 and U+0099. These so-called C1 control characters are more or less unspecified. They got into Unicode, because they were present in the very first version of what should later become ISO 10646, the ISO-standardized version of Unicode. They were meant to be part of an…
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U+006F codepoints.net
LATIN SMALL LETTER O - leads the list of characters with confusable shapes. Of all the possible mappings in the list of confusable characters, the small “o” leads with a whopping 73 entries of similar looking glyphs, followed by U+006C LATIN SMALL LETTER L with 70 entries.
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U+0000 codepoints.net
<control> - first code point.
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National Biogeographic Map usgs.gov
A platform maintained by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) that provides a platform for analysis of questions about what species are where, how well protected they are, how vulnerable they are to stressors, and what management options will have the greatest benefit for…
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LANDSAT Products usgs.gov
Landsat U.S. Analysis Ready Data (ARD) products are consistently processed to the highest scientific standards and level of processing required for direct use in monitoring and assessing landscape change.
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National Hydrography usgs.gov
The NHDPlus High Resolution (NHDPlus HR), National Hydrography Dataset (NHD), and Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) are available for download and as map services. These datasets can help inform environmental planning and storm water management efforts in the US.
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NLCD usgs.gov
The National Land Cover Database is generated in cooperation with the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium (MRLC), a partnership of Federal agencies working together to produce current, nationally consistent, land cover products for all 50 US states and Puerto Rico.
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The Nexus urbanismnext.org
Examines the potential impacts that new mobility, autonomous vehicles, e-commerce, and other innovations will have on cities and communities and catalogues various resources and tools related to them.
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UrbanFootPrint urbanfootprint.com
Web-based planning tool serving curated urban, environmental, and economic data to urban practitioners and equipping them with the analytic capabilities to plan and improve communities faster, better, and at lower cost.
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Unreal Engine unrealengine.com
Epic Games Unreal Engine is a XR engine that allows planners to not just create visualizations, but create immersive environments that gamify community involvement, decision-making, and the planning process.
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Unacast unacast.com
Provides location based analytics related to how people move across 80+ countries ranging from foot-traffic metrics to cross-visitation.
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ULI uli.org
The oldest and largest network of cross-disciplinary real estate and land use experts in the world.
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Pandana udst.github.io
Urban network analysis library intended to help planners compute quick accessibility metrics or shortest paths. Additional Information: License: AGPL-3.0 License: Provider: UrbanSim Inc. (UDST).
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TwinMotion twinmotion.com
An easy to use real-time visualization software that creates offline renderer-quality images, animations, and panoramas, together with interactive 360° videos and VR presentations built on Unreal Engine.
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Turf.js turfjs.org
Advanced geospatial analysis for browsers and Node.js. Additional Information: GitHub.
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Tree Equity Score treeequityscore.org
This dataset provides measures how well the critical benefits of urban tree canopy are reaching those who need them most in urbanized areas.
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TCRP trb.org
Sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration, the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) serves as one of the principal means by which the public transportation industry can develop innovative near-term solutions to meet demands placed on it. The TCRP has an established…
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NCHRP trb.org
The National Cooperative Highway Research Program is developed on the basis of research needs identified by chief administrators and other staff of the highway and transportation departments, by committees of AASHTO, and by FHWA. Topics of the highest merit are selected by the…
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SIRI transmodel-cen.eu
Service Interface for Real Time Information (SIRI) is a European standard for real-time information which has had limited adoption in the United States, but would be compatible with hardware and network systems which meet European standards.
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