Other planes / 32 Bit: Ctrl+ V, Shift+ U followed by the 8 hexadecimal digits of the Unicode code point.įor example: To enter the bullet character 'â¢' in Vim, press Ctrl+ V U 2 0 2 2.
- Tools which accept only input from the BMP, and thus need a surrogate pair to enter code points from other planes, such as IdeaVim and Mac OS.īMP / 16 Bit: Ctrl+ V, U followed by the 4 hexadecimal digits of the Unicode code point.
- Tools which accept any number from any plane, but have different shortcuts for the BMP and other planes, such as Vim.
- Tools which accept any number from any plane without difference, such as GTK.
- In some tools it makes a difference whether a Unicode character is in the BMP, that is the first 65536 Unicode code points, or another plane. Depending on the operating system and program, you can enter Unicode characters by number or with a tool. There are many ways how to enter Unicode characters. Everyone in the world should be able to use their own language on phones and computers. The Unicode is an international standard that assigns numbers to characters (symbols) for processing text and scripts with computers. See chapter Browsers for more information. The correct display of information on this page depends heavily on the browser and operating system.
- 5 Choosing between Text Mode and Emoji Modeįigure -1: Screenshot of the Unicode Consortium Website.
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Author: Christian Hujer, CEO / CTO Nelkinda Software Craft Private Limited First Published: by Nelkinda Software Craft Private Limited Last Modified: by Christian Hujer Table of Contents They will be especially useful when you're an author of blog articles, books, or frequent user of Slack. This article describes some useful Unicode characters called Code Points.
Unicode is the standard with the goal to represent all non-fictional characters ( aka non-constructed scripts) in use by humans.