Unicode is a universal character set that can represent all the world’s languages. A character is simply the symbol that represents a sound, or a letter of the alphabet, or a letter of a language, or a symbol. The Unicode encoding assigns one character to one and only one code point, and therefore makes it easy for different computer systems to talk to each other, and also to store and retrieve text in a standard way. Unicode encodes any character into a code point, where a code point consists of a code value, and a “category” and “script” (see below). These code points are usually not displayed directly on screen; rather, they are converted into some other kind of visual character, such as a glyph. For example, an A is mapped to an “a” glyph, the “a” code point, etc.
In some of Xorg Linux applications you might see the following error when you use certain Unicode characters, like “❔” (fancy question mark): The numbers can be different, but the error persists. Typically, it crashes the application. There are various solutions to this problem, but I found the most optimal one. You just need to … Read more
Sometimes you need to type a symbol, but it is not present on keyboard. Typing such symbols is complicated and time-consuming. Some symbols are absent on keyboard, because of font limitation and the design of keyboard. I prepared a Common Unicode characters table. What is Unicode? According to official website, Unicode is a set of … Read more