Xah Unicode Blog

• Unicode: Reference Marks ✽ † ¶ § ☛

updated

• Unicode: Stars ⭐ ✨ ❄
• Unicode: Geometric Shapes 🔴 🟥 🔺

• Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤

• Emoji: Flags 🏁

• Emoji: Gestures 🤦

• Unicode: Which Characters Can Become Emoji

• Unicode: Ancient Scripts. Index

• 🆕 Unicode: Human Languages. Index

minor format change. removed the use of html br tag, so the page is more vertically compact.

• Emoji: Love 💋 🍆 🍑 💦

• Emoji: Car train boat airplane 🚗 🚂 ⛵ 🛫 🚀 🚲

• Unicode Characters Bad Naming

• Xah Talk Show 2026-07-03 Ep802. Write JavaScript app to convert letters to Unicode Circled Letters Ⓐ Ⓑ Ⓒ

• Unicode: Circled Letters Ⓐ Ⓑ Ⓒ

• Xah Talk Show 2026-07-01 Ep801. Unicode food, bubba milk tea, emacs, deno bundle minify JavaScript...
• Unicode: Fun, Funky, Weird, Chars

• reworked the format, html, css.
• Emoji: Flags 🏁

• Microsoft Windows 11 Emoji gone trans (2021)

• Why no emoji named coffee ☕ (Repurposed Unicode Characters)

• Apple emoji font is bitmapped (2026)

• Emoji: Love 💋 🍆 🍑 💦

• Unicode: Brackets 「」【】《》

• Unicode: Ancient Scripts. Index

• Unicode: Misc. Index

• Unicode art. Index

• Unicode: box drawing shapes ╔╦═╗
• Unicode: block elements ░ ▒ ▓ ▙
• Unicode block art ▚ ▞
• Unicode Maze
• Japan Unicode Text Art (･ω･`)

• Unicode Upside-Down Text ɐ q ɔ

• Unicode: Ligature fi œ

• Unicode Dragon Emoji (2026)

• Unicode. Replace omg 😂 by BUTTERFLY 🦋 (2026)

• Unicode Smilies (¬_¬)

• 🆕 Unicode: Ogham ᚅ ᚗ ᚘ
• 🆕 Unicode: Fun, Funky, Weird, Chars

• Unicode: Old Italic 𐌎

• Unicode: Canadian Syllabics ᐊ ᖗ ᗝ

eight new emoji from iOS 26.4 (March 24, 2026)

🫪 🫯 🧑 ‍ 🩰 🫍 🫈 🪊 🛘 🪎

updates

• Unicode: Brackets 「」【】《》
• Unicode: Slash, Solidus / ⫽ ⫻

• Unicode: Order Theory and Equality ≦ ≺ ≠ ≡ ≈

• Unicode: Math Symbols ∑ ∫ π² ∞

added js and python howto.

• Unicode: Code Point (Char ID)

• Unicode UTF8 History, by Rob Pike

• relevant 10 years ago.
• today, default fonts support all basic unicode tech symbols and math.
• Best Unicode Fonts for Coders

• Programing Language: ASCII Char Jam vs Unicode (2011)

• Unicode BOM Hack

• URL Percent Encoding and Unicode (2010)
• Semantic of Symbols: HTML Entities, Ampersand, Unicode

• unicode MAGNIFYING GLASS symbols 🔎 🔍
• which should you use to represent search on website?
• after some research, they use the version with handle on the right 🔍 (LEFT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS)
• used by amazon brave google YouTube twitter discord.
• i thought this handle-on-left 🔎 would be more popular.

had to fix some of my search page title to all use the same version.

• XahLee.info Search 🔍
• Unicode Search 🔍
• Xah Keyboard Search 🔍

• Xah Emacs Search 🔍
• Xah WolframLang Tutorial Search 🔍
• Xah Webdev Search 🔍
• PowerShell Tutorial Search 🔍
• Xah Python Tutorial Search 🔍

• Xah Unicode blog archive 2012 to 2018

added 🔎 🔍

• Emoji: Office Tools ✂ 📧 📁 📌

• Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫

• Unicode: Brackets 「」【】《》

• Emoji: Places 🏨

• Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫

• Unicode: User Interface Icons 🛜 ⏩ 🗑

🝮

• Unicode: Alchemical Symbols 🜚 🜛

• Unicode: Fun, Funky, Weird, Chars

〃

• that is the ditto mark.
• i don't think the zoomer knew this.
• Unicode: Punctuations • ✓ ™

funny.

ᴥ ʬ ʭ

• Unicode: Latin é ö ñ æ ß ð

• Unicode: Fun, Funky, Weird, Chars

fuck Microsoft, made the unicode star emoji ⭐ looking like dull shit.

Child and adult looks the same

• Microsoft Windows 11 Emoji gone trans (2021)
• Emoji meme of sex race culture (2018)
• Emoji became creepy yellow unhuman (2017)

• Unicode 10 New Characters (2017)

• Emoji: Gestures 🤦

• Twemoji (twitter emoji) history (2014 to 2022)

• Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤

• Unicode: Cross ❌ ✝

• Unicode: Playing Cards 🃏 ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦

also, now all unicode pages support changing font size.

• Emoji: Office Tools ✂ 📧 📁 📌
• Unicode: User Interface Icons 🛜 ⏩ 🗑
• Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫

lots updates.

• Emoji: Love 💋 🍆 🍑 💦
• Unicode: Culture, Religion 💀 ⚕ ☥ ☭

• Unicode: box drawing shapes ╔╦═╗

• Unicode: Brackets 「」【】《》
• Unicode: IPA æ
• Unicode: Rune ᚠ ᚢ ᛋ ᛟ

• 🆕 Unicode: Which Characters Can Become Emoji

• Emoji on Facebook, Twitter, Sina Weibo (2014)

• Unicode: Emoji vs Text
• Unicode: User Interface Icons 🛜 ⏩ 🗑
• Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫

⇒ vs ↦

• ⇒ used in logic. Means imply.
• ↦ used in math. means mapto. e.g. 4 ↦ 8

• Unicode: Punctuations • ✓ ™

• Unicode: Music 🎶

JavaScript spec now uses unicode fully.

• Unicode. Replace omg 😂 by BUTTERFLY 🦋 (2026)

• Unicode: Yinyang, Trigrams ☯ ☷

• Unicode 15 New Characters (2022)
• Unicode 16 New Characters (2024)
• Unicode 17 New Characters (2025)

• Microsoft Windows 11 Emoji gone trans (2021)

• Unicode: Misc. Index

• Emoji: Animal 🐰

• Emoji: Things 🎁 💊 🚽 🔪 🔨

• 🆕 Unicode: Basic Multilingual Plane

• Unicode: Code Point (Char ID)
• Unicode: Surrogate Pair

• Unicode: Character Name
• Unicode Characters Bad Naming
• Unicode Character Name Change

Unicode as indicator

• 🪟 → Microsoft Windows
• 🐧 → Linux
• 🍎 → Apple computer
• 🐃 → GNU Emacs

• 📺 → Video
• 📜 → computer code script
• 📦 → programing language package

• 👎 → bad, obsolete
• ❌ → bad
• ⭐ → good
• 🆕 → new.
• 🌟 → new

• Unicode Dragon Emoji