Unicode™ : Java Glossary

Unicode Glyphs

Unicode 16 and Unicode 32 Glyphs
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code	Description	code † = 32 bit	Description
0000	Basic Latin	2600	Miscellaneous Symbols chess, astrology, I-ching, telephones, hazards, religious symbols, hammer and sickle.
0080	Latin-1 Supplement accented letters, basic symbols	2700	Dingbats asterisks, ornaments, hands, right-pointing arrows, pencils, scissors, pens.
0100	Latin Extended-A Esperanto accented letters	27C0	Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A, including SQL left, right and full joins.
0180	Latin Extended-B African	27F0	Supplemental Arrows-A
0250	IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Extensions	2800	Braille Patterns
02B0	Spacing Modifier Letters	2900	Supplemental Arrows-B
0300	Combining Diacritical Marks	2980	Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B
0370	Greek	2A00	Supplemental Mathematical Operators including variants of + - × ÷
0400	Cyrillic	2B00	Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows
0500	Cyrillic Supplement	2C00	Glagolytic pre Cyrillic Bulgarian
0530	Armenian	2E80	CJK Radicals Supplement Chinese Japanese Korean
0590	Hebrew	2F00	Kangxi Radicals
0600	Arabic	2FF0	Ideographic Description Characters
0700	Syriac	3000	CJK Symbols and Punctuation Chinese Japanese Korean
0780	Thaana	3040	Hiragana (Japanese) Used when no Kanji character exists.
0900	Devanagari: Hindi	30A0	Katakana (Japanese) mainly for foreign names
0980	Bengali	3100	Bopomofo: phonetic script for Mandarin
0A00	Gurmukhi	3130	Hangul Compatibility Jamo
0A80	Gujarati	3190	Kanbun: used by Japanese to annotate classic Chinese
0B00	Oriya	31A0	Bopomofo Extended
0B80	Tamil	31F0	Katakana Phonetic Extensions
0C00	Telugu	3200	Enclosed CJK Letters and Months Chinese Japanese Korean
0C80	Kannada	3300	CJK Compatibility Chinese Japanese Korean
0D00	Malayalam	3400	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A Chinese Japanese Korean
0D80	Sinhala	4DC0	Yijing Hexagram Symbols
0E00	Thai	4E00	CJK Unified Ideographs Chinese Japanese Korean
0E80	Lao	A000	Yi Syllables
0F00	Tibetan	A490	Yi Radicals
1000	Myanmar	AC00	Hangul Syllables
10A0	Georgian	D800	High Surrogates
1100	Hangul Jamo	DC00	Low Surrogates
1200	Ethiopic	E000	Private Use Area
13A0	Cherokee	F900	CJK Compatibility Ideographs Chinese Japanese Korean
1400	Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic	FB00	Alphabetic Presentation Forms, ligatures including Hebrew
1680	Ogham	FB50	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
16A0	Runic	FE00	Variation Selectors, non-printing control characters
1700	Tagalog	FE20	Combining Half Marks
1720	Hanunoo	FE30	CJK Compatibility Forms Chinese Japanese Korean
1740	Buhid	FE50	Small Form Variants
1760	Tagbanwa	FE70	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
1780	Khmer	FF00	Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms
1800	Mongolian	FFF0	Specials, byte order marks.
1900	Limbu	†0001 0000	Linear B Syllabary (32-bit)
1950	Tai Le	†0001 0080	Linear B Ideograms (32-bit)
19E0	Khmer Symbols	†0001 0100	Aegean Numbers (32-bit)
1D00	Phonetic Extensions	†0001 0300	Old Italic (32-bit)
1E00	Latin Extended Additional, dotted letters, letters with two accents.	†0001 0330	Gothic (32-bit)
1F00	Greek Extended	†0001 0380	Ugaritic Cuneiform (32-bit)
2000	General Punctuation	†0001 0400	Deseret Mormon (32-bit)
2070	Superscripts and Subscripts	†0001 0450	Shavian (32-bit)
20A0	Currency Symbols	†0001 0480	Osmanya: Somalian (32-bit)
20D0	Combining Marks for Symbols	†0001 0800	Cypriot Syllabary (32-bit)
2100	™ Letterlike Symbols	†0001 D000	Byzantine Musical Symbols (32-bit)
2150	Number Forms, Roman Numerals and fractions	†0001 D100	Musical Symbols (32-bit)
2190	Arrows	†0001 D300	Tai Xuan Jing Symbols (32-bit) Look like I-Ching hexagrams truncated to four lines.
2200	Mathematical Operators, del, grad, element, there exists, for all, union, intersection, contains, dot product, cross product, therefore, square root, logical and, logical or, summation, product.	†0001 D400	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (32-bit)
2300	Miscellaneous Technical, APL operators.	†0002 0000	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B (32-bit) Chinese Japanese Korean
2400	Control Pictures for displaying unprintable ASCII control chararacters.	†0002 F800	CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supp. (32-bit) Chinese Japanese Korean
2440	Optical Character Recognition	†000E 0000	Tags, control characters. (32-bit)
2460	Enclosed Alphanumerics	†000E 0100	Variation Selectors Supp., non printing control characters (32-bit)
2500	Box Drawing	†000F 0000	Supplementary Private Use Area-A (32-bit)
2580	Block Elements	†0010 0000	Supplementary Private Use Area-B (32-bit)
25A0	Geometric Shapes

What Is Unicode?

Sometimes called UCS or ISO 10646. Unicode allows Java to handle international characters for most of the world’s living languages, including Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bopomofo, Chinese (via unified Han), Cyrillic, English, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Hindi (Devanagari), Japanese (Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana via unified Han), Kannada, Korean (Hangul via unified Han), Lao, Maylayalam, Oriya, Tai, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan… Unicode will make it much easier for non-English speaking programmers to write programs for English speaking users and vice versa.

In Java, you get at the exotic characters by encoding them in hex in your strings like this: "\u00f7\u2713" to produce ÷ ✓. See String literals for more details.

In HTML, you get at the exotic characters by encoding them as entities such as ÷✓ to produce ÷ ✓.

Unicode Symbols

In addition there all kinds of interesting special characters characters such as: Alphabetic Presentation Forms, APL, Arrows, Bengali, Block Elements, Box Drawing, Braille Patterns, Byzantine Musical Symbols, Combining Diacritical Marks, Combining Half Marks, Combining Marks for Symbols, Control Pictures — icons for control chars, Currency Symbols, Dingbats, Enclosed Alphanumerics, General Punctuation, Geometric Shapes, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, High Surrogates, Ideographic Description Characters, IPA Extensions, Letterlike Symbols, Low Surrogates, Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols (32 bit Unicode), Mathematical Operators, Mathematical Symbols, Miscellaneous Symbols (astrology, chess, playing cards), Miscellaneous Technical (del, grad, integral), Musical Symbols, Number Forms (e.g. Roman numerals), OCR (Optical Character Recognition — the OCR-A MICR characters used in magnetic ink cheque encoding), Old Italic, Runic, Small Form Variants, Spacing Modifier Letters, Specials, Superscripts and Subscripts, Tags (letters with price tags), Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabic and Variation Selectors.

Unicode Arrows

Viewing Unicode Glyphs

Creating Unicode Documents

Byte Order Marks

What’s Missing From Unicode?

• bold
• italic
• Small caps
• Old style numerals: 
• Variant forms for Arabic letters use at the beginnings, middle and ends of words.

To typeset, you need separate fonts to handle such variants, with the letters encoded with the same unicode character. The word processor automatically selects the appropriate variant. I don’t know the mechanism by which a word processor can tell which fonts are related, and which styles and font-weights each supports. Presumably it is encoded somehow in the font files.

To a large extent ligatures are handled outside Unicode by automatically combining Unicode characters, though there are a few ligatures that rate a special Unicode character.

Unicode Editors

• r A custom Java program that uses a FileWriter with UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, or UTF-8 encoding.
• nativetoascii.exe, Sun’s encoding translation utility.
• Eclipse IDE.
• JEdit: a programmer’s text editor that also supports a few dozen other encodings, and has piles of plugins for various purposes, plus syntax highlighting for lots of languages.

Books

	recommend book⇒The Unicode 5.0 Standard
		hardcover
	ISBN13:	978-0-321-48091-0
	ISBN10:	0-321-48091-0
	publisher:	Addison-Wesley
	published:	2006-11-19
	by:	The Unicode Consortium
Unicode 5.0 adds the following: Security mechanisms a standard collation algorithm for various national orderings. A common locale data repository. Improvements to the encoding model for UTF-8. Rigorous stability of case folding. a systematic framework covering combining characters, Unicode strings, line breaking, and segmentation
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