Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems.The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium, and as of June 2017 the most recent version, Unicode 10.0, contains a repertoire of 136,755 characters covering 139 modern and …
Introduction. Before Unicode became widely supported, it was not uncommon to face problems such as trying to include a passage in a different alphabet in one of your documents, for example a quotation in Russian in an English document, only to find that you had no Cyrillic characters available.
What is Unicode, ASCII, and ANSI? Unicode is a map, a chart of (what will one day be) all of the characters, letters, symbols, punctuation marks, etc. necessary for writing all of the world’s languages past and present.
This page allows you to easily type mathematical and scientific symbols available in Unicode. You can edit your text in the box and then copy it …
Scribal abbreviations or sigla (singular: siglum or sigil) are the abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes writing in Latin, and later in Greek and Old Norse.Modern manuscript editing (substantive and mechanical) employs sigla as symbols indicating the location of a source manuscript and to identify the copyist(s) of a work.
This page is intended to supply a list of some useful symbols separated by topic so they can be found quickly without the need to search in the Unicode reference tables.
The Penn State Symbol Codes site is migrating to Sites at Penn State and has been significantly updated. See the directory below for site content.
I Description. Unicode 3.1 is a version of the Unicode Standard. It overrides certain features of Unicode 3.0.1, and adds a large number of coded characters.
Glossary of Unicode Terms. This glossary is updated periodically to stay synchronized with changes to various standards maintained by the Unicode Consortium.
This IPA keyboard allows you to type pronunciations of English words as they appear in English dictionaries. After you copy text from the above box and paste it into your word processor or e-mail message, make sure you choose a Unicode font with IPA symbols in your word processor or e-mail application.
