Xah Unicode blog archive 2024 to 2025

• Microsoft Windows 11 Emoji gone trans (2021)

• Unicode: Chinese 中文
• Unicode: Japanese の

• Emoji: Sports ⚽ 🏀 🎾
• Unicode: Culture, Religion 💀 ⚕ ☥ ☭
• Emoji: Things 🎁 💊 🚽 🔪 🔨

• Unicode: Slash, Solidus / ⫽ ⫻

• Emoji skin colors politics (2015)

• 🄽🄾🅆 🅈🄾🅄 🄲🄰🄽 🅃🅄🅁🄽 🅈🄾🅄🅁 🅃🅈🄿🄸🄽🄶 🄸🄽🅃🄾 🅂🅀🅄🄰🅁🄴 🄱🄾🅇🄴🅂.
• 🅽🅾🆆 🆈🅾🆄 🅲🅰🅽 🆃🆄🆁🅽 🆈🅾🆄🆁 🆃🆈🅿🅸🅽🅶 🅸🅽🆃🅾 🆂🆀🆄🅰🆁🅴 🅱🅾🆇🅴🆂.
• now you can turn your typing into square boxes.

• Unicode: Squared Letters 🄰 🅰 🅱 🅲 🆗

• Unicode: User Interface Icons 🛜 ⏩ 🗑
• Emoji: Office Tools ✂ 📧 📁 📌
• Emoji: Tech Gadgets 🎧 📱 📺
• Unicode: Clocks ⏰ ⏳ 🕒
• Unicode: Keyboard Symbols ⌘ ↵ ⌫
• Unicode: Whitespace Representation ⇥ ▷ ␣ ¶

• Unicode: Old Italic 𐌎

Microsoft Windows 10 Logo 𐌎 in Unicode

this character, represents the Microsoft Windows 10 logo.

• 𐌎 (U+1030E: OLD ITALIC LETTER ESH)

• Unicode: Rune ᚠ ᚢ ᛋ ᛟ

• Unicode: Misc Technical Symbols ⌬ ⎄ ⎅ ⧯
• Unicode: Tacks, Turnstiles ⊣ ⊢ ⊥ ⊤ ⫪ ⫫
• Unicode: Circled Letters Ⓐ Ⓑ Ⓒ

∑:-)

• Lingusitics, Orthography, History.
• Unicode. fascinating.
• Because it is the written symbols of human animals.
• ALL OF IT.
• To understand characters of all unicode, is like a god of records.

• Unicode: Games Emoji 🎲 🎱 🎯
• 🆕 Unicode: Playing Cards 🃏 ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦
• 🆕 Unicode: Domino 🂓
• 🆕 Unicode: Mahjong Tiles 🀄

• Unicode: Cross ❌ ✝

• Unicode: Ligature fi œ

• Unicode: Look-Alike Math Symbols ∆ ∂ µ

• Unicode: Whitespace Representation ⇥ ▷ ␣ ¶

• these decorative characters are the most beautiful.
• it is rarely known.
• you see them in prints of 90s and before.

❦ ❡ 🙐 🙑 🙒 🙓 🙔 🙕 🙖 🙗 🙚 🙘 🙛 🙙 🙞 🙜 🙟 🙝 🙠 🙡 🙢 🙣 🙤 🙥 🙦 🙧 🙨 🙩 🙪 🙫 🙬 🙭 🙮 🙯 🙶 🙷 🙸 🙾 🙿 🙼 🙽

• Unicode: Typography Ornaments ☙ ❦ ❧

great varieties of bullets for your mathematical play

• Unicode: Geometric Shapes 🔴 🟥 🔺

• W3C Proposed Icons for Internet before Unicode

unicode globe char as global variable prefix

as coding convention, should we prefix 🌐 to all global variable names?

• https://x.com/xah_lee/status/1928889030256500942
• https://x.com/dcooper8/status/1928896539260227723

• Unicode Characters Bad Naming

• Unicode: Slash, Solidus / ⫽ ⫻

• Unicode: box drawing shapes ╔╦═╗
• Unicode Art, Geometric Patterns
• Japan Unicode Text Art (･ω･`)
• Unicode Text Art
• Unicode Text Font Art
• A Emoji Tale, Good Night Gone Bad 🎈😊 🍻😳🚗💨🚓💢😱
• Unicode Smilies (¬_¬)

• Unicode: Games Emoji 🎲 🎱 🎯

Unicode, Chinese Cultural Symbols

• Unicode emoji for Chinese prosperity symbols.
• still no font for it.
• it was added to unicode 10, year 2017.

• 🉠 → U+1F260: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR FU
• 🉡 → U+1F261: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR LU
• 🉢 → U+1F262: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR SHOU
• 🉣 → U+1F263: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR XI
• 🉤 → U+1F264: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR SHUANGXI
• 🉥 → U+1F265: ROUNDED SYMBOL FOR CAI

• every emoji or special characters have a font about a year or two after when the character is added to unicode.
• also there is no font for Chinese Chess (xiangqi) characters. They are added in Unicode 11 (2018)

• 🩠 → U+1FA60: XIANGQI RED GENERAL
• 🩡 → U+1FA61: XIANGQI RED MANDARIN
• 🩢 → U+1FA62: XIANGQI RED ELEPHANT
• 🩣 → U+1FA63: XIANGQI RED HORSE
• 🩤 → U+1FA64: XIANGQI RED CHARIOT
• 🩥 → U+1FA65: XIANGQI RED CANNON
• 🩦 → U+1FA66: XIANGQI RED SOLDIER
• 🩧 → U+1FA67: XIANGQI BLACK GENERAL
• 🩨 → U+1FA68: XIANGQI BLACK MANDARIN
• 🩩 → U+1FA69: XIANGQI BLACK ELEPHANT
• 🩪 → U+1FA6A: XIANGQI BLACK HORSE
• 🩫 → U+1FA6B: XIANGQI BLACK CHARIOT
• 🩬 → U+1FA6C: XIANGQI BLACK CANNON
• 🩭 → U+1FA6D: XIANGQI BLACK SOLDIER

• Unicode: Yinyang, Trigrams ☯ ☷

• Unicode 10 New Characters (2017)
• Unicode 11 New Characters (2018)

• Programing Language: Unicode math symbols in function name, variable, operator

updated.

• Emoji: Things 🎁 💊 🚽 🔪 🔨
• Emoji: Places 🏨
• Unicode: Music 🎶
• Emoji: Sports ⚽ 🏀 🎾
• Emoji: Office Tools ✂ 📧 📁 📌

• Unicode: Culture, Religion 💀 ⚕ ☥ ☭

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

• Emoji: Astrology 🪐
• Emoji: Weather ☔

• Unicode: Math Symbols ∑ ∫ π² ∞

• Pregnant man emoji 🫃 (2021)

updates

• Emoji: Faces 😄
• 🆕 Emoji: Gestures 🤦

• Emoji: Animal 🐰

• Unicode: Money, Currency 💰 $ € £ ¥

• Unicode Characters Bad Naming

• Unicode: Math Font ℤ

• Unicode: ASCII Control Characters ␀

• Xah Talk Show 2024-09-03 Ep582, Unicode, Greek mythology, Christianity, Western Civilization, What Do Girls Want

• 🆕 Pregnant man emoji 🫃 (2021)

• Gun emoji history 🔫 (2016 to 2024)
• Emoji became creepy yellow unhuman (2017)
• Emoji meme of sex race culture (2018)
• 🆕 Google using creepy Android logo as emoji for marketing (2012 to 2018)
• 🆕 Apple uses emoji for marketing Apple products 📱 🖱 🖥 (2018)

• Unicode: Brackets 「」【】《》

• Gun emoji history 🔫 (2016 to 2024)

some interesting chars

✠ ⹑ ⹐

• Unicode: Cross ❌ ✝

⸠ ⸡ ¦ |

• Unicode: Slash, Solidus / ⫽ ⫻

lots flags in euro r just 3 strips of colors. Do they not have any imagination. Interesting, Chad and Romania have the same flag.

Romania and Armenia and Colombia all are 3 strips of the same colors yellow blue red.

🇹🇩 Chad 🇷🇴 Romania 🇦🇲 Armenia 🇨🇴 Colombia

• Emoji: Flags 🏁

• Unicode: IPA æ
• Unicode: Ligature fi œ

• Unicode: Byte Order (Endianness)
• Unicode: Variation Selector
• Unicode: Emoji vs Text
• Emoji became creepy yellow unhuman (2017)

• Emoji: Tech Gadgets 🎧 📱 📺

• Unicode: Cyrillic Russian Ж

finally, there is power button symbol in unicode

• ⏻
• ⏼
• ⏽
• ⏾

• Unicode: User Interface Icons 🛜 ⏩ 🗑

• Unicode: Chinese 中文

• 🆕 Unicode Art, Geometric Patterns

more update

x ↦ ƒ(x)

• Unicode: Math Symbols π² ∞ ∫

𓁐 𓁑 𓁒 𓁓 𓁔 𓁕 𓁲 𓂑 𓂒 𓋏

• Egyptian Hieroglyph 𓂀

• Apple Unicode Tyrany

• Unicode: Math Font ℤ
• added finite field

• Unicode: Whitespace Representation ⇥ ▷ ␣ ¶

unicode stars. just adopted an asterisk for reference mark. Unicode: Stars ⭐ ✨ ❄

• Circle and Cross Marks

• Unicode: Devanagari अ
• Unicode: Bengali অ
• Unicode: Tamil அ
• Unicode: Tibetan ࿓
• Unicode: Arabic ش

• Unicode: Ligature fi œ

• Unicode: Logic Symbols ∀ ∃
• Unicode: Tacks, Turnstiles ⊣ ⊢ ⊥ ⊤ ⫪ ⫫
• Unicode: Math Font ℤ

• Unicode: Cuneiform 𒁷

• Unicode: Whitespace Representation ⇥ ▷ ␣ ¶

unicode renamed the character “NON-BREAKING SPACE” to “NO-BREAK SPACE”

• Unicode Characters Bad Naming