The first plane (plane 0), the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), is where most characters have been assigned so far. The BMP contains characters for almost all modern languages, and a large number of special characters. Most of the allocated code points in the BMP are used to encode Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters. The graphic on the right is a visual roadmap to the Basic Multilingual Plane. The colours in use are: Black= Latin s ...

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Mapping of Unicode characters, Mapping of Unicode characters - Basic Multilingual Plane, Mapping of Unicode characters - Supplementary Multilingual Plane, Mapping of Unicode characters - Private Use Area, Mapping of Unicode characters - Other planes, Mapping of Unicode characters - Mapping tables

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Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. Such characters may be rendered as boxes, question marks, or other replacement symbols, depending on your browser, operating system, and installed fonts. Even if you have ensured that your browser is interpreting the article as UTF-8 encoded and you have installed a font that supports a wide range of Unicode, such as Arial Unicode MS, Code2000, TITUS Cyberbit Basic, Lu ...

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Note: These tables may not display properly if your computer does not implement Unicode and have the proper fonts installed. Miscellaneous Symbols - Definitions. Note: There are gaps in the table, these denote undefined characters. Miscellaneous Symbols - Unicode Plane. ...

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Unicode - Standard. The Unicode Consortium, based in California, develops the Unicode standard. Any company or individual willing to pay the membership dues may join this organization. Members include virtually all of the main computer software and hardware companies with any interest in text-processing standards, such as Apple Computer, Microsoft, IBM, Xerox, HP, Adobe Systems and many others. The Consortium first published The Unicode Standard (ISBN 0321185781) in 1991, and continues to develop st ...

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Unicode, Unicode - Origin and development, Unicode - Scripts covered, Unicode - Trivia, Unicode - Mapping and encodings, Unicode - Standard, Unicode - Storage transfer and processing, Unicode - Ready-made versus composite characters, Unicode - Issues, Unicode - Unicode in use, Unicode - Operating systems, Unicode - E-mail, Unicode - Web, Unicode - Fonts, Unicode - Multilingual text-rendering engines, Unicode - Input methods

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Unicode - Operating systems. Despite technical problems and limitations and criticism on process, Unicode has emerged as the dominant encoding scheme. Windows NT and its descendants Windows 2000 and Windows XP make extensive use of UTF-16 as an internal representation of text. Unix-like operating systems such as GNU/Linux, Plan 9, BSD and Mac OS X have adopted UTF-8 as the basis of representation of multilingual text. Unicode - E-mail. M ...

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Unicode has the explicit aim of transcending the limitations of traditional character encodings, such as those defined by the ISO 8859 standard which find wide usage in various countries of the world, but remain largely incompatible with each other. Many traditional character encodings share a common problem in that they allow bilingual computer processing (usually using Roman characters and the local language), but not multilingual computer processing (computer process ...

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Unicode covers almost all scripts (writing systems) in current use today, including: Arabic Armenian Bengali Braille embossing patterns Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Cherokee Coptic Cyrillic Devanāgarī Ethiopic Georgian Greek Gujarati Gurmukhi Hangul (Korean) Han (Kanji, Hanja, Hanzi) Japanese (Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana) Hebrew Khmer (Cambo ...

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Unicode covers almost all scripts (writing systems) in current use today, including: Arabic Armenian Bengali Braille embossing patterns Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Cherokee Coptic Cyrillic Devanāgarī Ethiopic Georgian Greek Gujarati Gurmukhi Hangul (Korean) Han (Kanji, Hanja, Hanzi) Japanese (Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana) Hebrew Khmer (Cambodian)

Unicode - Operating systems. Despite technical problems and limitations and criticism on process, Unicode has emerged as the dominant encoding scheme. Windows NT and its descendants Windows 2000 and Windows XP make extensive use of UTF-16 as an internal representation of text. Unix-like operating systems such as GNU/Linux, Plan 9, BSD and Mac OS X have adopted UTF-8 as the bas ...

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Unicode, Unicode - Origin and development, Unicode - Scripts covered, Unicode - Trivia, Unicode - Mapping and encodings, Unicode - Standard, Unicode - Storage transfer and processing, Unicode - Ready-made versus composite characters, Unicode - Issues, Unicode - Unicode in use, Unicode - Operating systems, Unicode - E-mail, Unicode - Web, Unicode - Fonts, Unicode - Multilingual text-rendering engines, Unicode - Input methods

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A Private Use Area is one of several ranges which are reserved for private use. For this range, the Unicode standard does not specify any characters. The Basic Multilingual Plane includes a Private Use Area in the range U+E000–U+F8FF (57344–63743), and Plane Fifteen (U+F0000–U+FFFFF) and Plane Sixteen (U+100000–10FFFF) are completely reserved for private use as well. The use of the Private Use Area was a concept inherited from certain Asian encoding systems. These systems used private use areas to e ...

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Mapping of Unicode characters, Mapping of Unicode characters - Basic Multilingual Plane, Mapping of Unicode characters - Supplementary Multilingual Plane, Mapping of Unicode characters - Private Use Area, Mapping of Unicode characters - Other planes, Mapping of Unicode characters - Mapping tables

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Plane 1, the Supplementary Multilingual Plane, (SMP) is mostly used for historic scripts such as Linear B, but is also used for musical and mathematical symbols. As of Unicode 4.1, Plane One includes the following scripts: Linear B Syllabary (10000–1007F) Linear B Ideograms (10080–100FF) Aegean Numbers (10100–1013F) Ancient Greek Numbers (10140–1018F) Old Italic (10300–1032F) Gothic (10330–1034F) Ugaritic (10380–1039F) Old Persian (103A0� ...

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Mapping of Unicode characters, Mapping of Unicode characters - Basic Multilingual Plane, Mapping of Unicode characters - Supplementary Multilingual Plane, Mapping of Unicode characters - Private Use Area, Mapping of Unicode characters - Other planes, Mapping of Unicode characters - Mapping tables

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