Unicode Character Set

<< Unicode Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Notes

This chapter provides notes and tutorial examples on the Unicode character set. Topics including introduction of Unicode standard, example characters, history of releases, blocks of code points.

What Is Unicode?

Examples of Unicode Characters

Unique Features of Unicode

Unicode Standard Releases

Code Point Blocks

Conclusions:

• The latest major release of the Unicode standard is 5.0, which contains 99,024 characters.
• Each Unicode character has a code point and a code name.
• Unicode code points are numeric values in the range of 0x000000 and 0x10FFFF.
• Unicode is compatible with the ISO/IEC 10646 standard.