Unicode Symbology ☢ ☯ ☭ ∑ ∞ ♀ ♂ ♥

Unicode Symbols Gallery

• Commonly Used Symbols ♂ ♀ ♥ ¥ α ©
• Math ∑ ∞ ∫ π ∈ ℝ²
• Brackets ＆ Quotation Marks «» 「」 【】 《》
• Arrows ← → ↑ ↓
• APL Symbols ⍝ ⍵ ⍨ ≬
• Character Representation ␀ ␤ ␠ ␣ ¶ ↩ �

• Keyboard ⌘ ⏎ ↹ ⌫ ❖
• Computer User Interface Icons ⌚ ⌛ ✍ 🔋 🔒
• Dingbats, Cultural Symbols ★ ✡ ☭ ☯ ☢
• Transport ＆ Map ⚠ ⛽ ✈ ⛔
• Emoticons, Faces 😃 😄 😱 😸 👸 👽 👍
• Food ＆ Drink 🍕 🍎 🍒 🍷
• Animal ＆ Insect 🐭 🐮 🐍 🐵 🐞
• Office
• Sports ＆ Games ⚽ ⛷ 🏁 🂡 ♞
• Ancient Astronomy ☿ ♆ 🌛 ♋
• Weather
• Unicode Music Symbols 𝄞 ♫ 🎹 🎸

• Drawing Lines, Boxes, Shapes ┌ ┐ └ ┘ ├ ┤ ┬ ┴ ┼
• Unicode Geometric Shapes ◰ ◱ ◲ ◳ ◐ ◑ ◒ ◓ ▲ ▼ ◀ ▶ ⬟ ⬢ ⬣
• Egyptian Hieroglyph

• Punctuation, Printer's Symbols ‡ ¶ © ™ ☙
• Unicode Circled Numbers ① ② ③
• Math Font ℤ ℚ ℝ ℂ ℍ ℜ ℑ ⅇ ⅈ
• Ｕｎｉｃｏｄｅ Ｆｕｌｌ－Ｗｉｄｔｈ Ｃｈａｒａｃｔｅｒｓ

Missing font? see: Fonts for Unicode 6 Emoticons

Examples of Real World Use of Unicode

• Diacritics: Trema, Umlaut, Macron, Circumflex
• English Phonetics: IPA vs American Heritage Dictionary vs Merriam-Webster
• Intro to Chinese Punctuation
• Linguistics: Zhuyin (ㄅㄆㄇㄈ), Pinyin, IPA, Comparison
• 简体/繁體 字表 (Simplified/Traditional Chinese Characters List)

• Emacs's Keybinding Layout Diagram
• Short Survey of Keyboard Shortcut Notations
• Keyboard Enter/Return Key Symbol
• The Moronicities of Typography: Hyphen, Dash, Quotation Marks, Apostrophe

• Mac OS X Keyboard Viewer and Unicode
• How to Create a APL or Math Symbols Keyboard Layout
• Unicode: W3C Proposed Icons {Image, Video, Sound File, Trash, Keyboard, Mouse, …}

Unicode for Programmers

What's Unicode

• UNICODE Basics: What's Character Encoding, UTF-8, and All That?
• Unicode Popularity on Web by Google
• What Encoding Do Chinese Websites Use?
• Best Unicode Fonts for Programing
• Unicode Character Shows Blank, Question Mark, Gibberish

Syntax, Semantics, Design

• Problems of Symbol Congestion in Computer Languages; ASCII Jam vs Unicode
• Unicode BOM Byte Order Mark Hack
• Designing a Math Symbols Input System
• HTML Entities, Ampersand, Unicode, Semantics
• URL Percent Encoding and Unicode

• Syntax Design: Use of Unicode Matching Brackets as Specialized Delimiters
• Syntax Semantics Design: Use of Unicode Ellipsis Symbol vs Dot Dot Dot
• Unicode Semantics: the ∀ in Turn A Gundam
• Semantics of Symbols: Examples Unicode Symbols Usage
• Unicode Symbol for “e.g.” (exempli gratia)

Unicode Support in Computer Languages

• Unicode Support in Ruby, Perl, Python, JavaScript, Java, Emacs Lisp, Mathematica
• Character Sets and Encoding in HTML
• HTML/XML Entities List
• Using Unicode in HTML Attributes
• Python Unicode Tutorial 🐍
• Ruby Unicode Tutorial 💎
• Perl Unicode Tutorial 🐫
• Unicode in JavaScript
• How Mathematica does Unicode?
• Unicode in Java
• Linden Scripting Language (LSL) Unicode Support

Unicode Support in Tools

• Unicode Support in File Names: Windows, Mac, Emacs, Unison, Rsync, USB, Zip
• Unicode Character Equivalence Support in Web Browsers
• Unicode Font Comparison: Arial Unicode MS vs DejaVu Sans

Processing Unicode

• Python: Processing Unicode: unicodedata Module Tutorial
• Python ＆ Perl: Converting a File's Encoding
• Converting Charset Encoding with Java

Unicode ＆ Emacs

• Emacs and Unicode Tips
• Emacs Unicode Browser (xub-mode)
• Emacs Math Symbols Input Mode (xmsi-mode)
• Emacs Keyboard Macro Example: Insert All Unicode Bullets
• Unicode: Carbon Emacs 22 vs Emacs 23
• Emacs: Remapping Keys Using key-translation-map

misc, unsorted

• Annoying Invisible ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE Character from Google Plus, Twitter
• Unicode: Symbol to Represent Map Links
• Web Browsers Unicode Support; Firefox 4 Sucks
• the Journey of a Foreign Character thru Internet
• Unicode: Unix/Linux Hacker Propaganda on UTF-8 Encoding