Unicode

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Unicode is a standard for encoding characters (letters, numbers, etc) in computer data.

Articles

• 2013-10-20 Mathias Bynens: JavaScript has a Unicode problem (archived)
• 2012-07-30 Mathias Bynens: How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases (archived), aka “The things we do to store U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO (💩) correctly.”

Tools

• Unicode Character Search on FireFormat.info
  • Search by glyph, number, or (partial) name.
  • Every character has its own information permalink.
• Unicode web apps by Richard Ishida
  • UniView for browsing the entirety of Unicode.
  • Unicode code converter for getting HTML entities and percent encodings of a string (amongst others).
• Unicode Toys by Elijah Griffin
  • for things like ⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑, ndsıpǝ poʍu, and bɘᴙoᴙᴙim text.

Copy-paste characters

• CopyPasteCharacter.com
• Unicode (Vulgar) Fractions
  • You can use the Unicode Fraction Maker from the Unicode Toys to generate other fractions.

See Also

• emoji
• https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/