Xah Unicode blog archive 2012 to 2018

Unicode symbol for X-men ⮿

Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤

major update. Added some 100 arrows i missed before.

on iphone and android phone, the arrows don't show. strange, because these are from unicode 7, year 2014.

ribbon arrows

⮰ ⮱ ⮲ ⮳ ⮴ ⮵ ⮶ ⮷

added to Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤

2018-07-02 thanks to https://twitter.com/vladresende/status/1013890682933710848

this utter stupid unicode page

http://unicode.org/emoji/charts/text-style.html

there r 1214 emoji there, and each picture is base64 encoded in the html. the file is 3 mega bytes. removing them, the file is 153k

Unicode: Emoji Usage Frequency

Unicode: box drawing shapes ╔╦═╗

Unicode: Emoji vs Text

Emoji became creepy yellow unhuman (2017)

• Symbola Font for Unicode No Longer Free (2018)

unicode 11 is out

https://unicode.org/versions/Unicode11.0.0/

Spaceship CUNEIFORM

• Unicode: Cuneiform 𒁷

• Unicode: Squared Letters 🄰 🅰 🅱 🅲 🆗

༕ ༖ ឱ ឲ

Chinese Chess Pieces in Unicode 11

🩠 🩡 🩢 🩣 🩤 🩥 🩦

🩧 🩨 🩩 🩪 🩫 🩬 🩭

• Play Chinese Chess Online

Father Christmas, not Santa Claus?

• Unicode Characters Bad Naming

Unicode Search “thousand”

Unicode Search “water”

Unicode Navigational Pointers

◄ ► ◅ ▻

☚ ☛ ☜ ☝ ☞ ☟

👆 👇 👈 👉

🔙 🔚 🔛 🔜 🔝

These are new in Unicode 6 i think. If it doesn't display, get the font, see: Unicode 6 Emoticons and Supporting Fonts. For many other arrows, see: Unicode: Arrows → ➵ ➛ ➲ ➤

• Unicode Characters Bad Naming

Unicode wave

• U+223F: SINE WAVE ∿
• U+301C: WAVE DASH 〜
• U+3030: WAVY DASH 〰
• U+2307: WAVY LINE ⌇
• U+FE4B: WAVY OVERLINE ﹋
• U+FE4C: DOUBLE WAVY OVERLINE ﹌

learned a few Unicode symbols related to functional programing.

• U+2394: SOFTWARE-FUNCTION SYMBOL⎔

thanks to [François-René Rideau https://plus.google.com/108564127390615114635/posts]