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A comprehensive overview of the 155,063 characters with code points in Unicode version 16.0, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. Includes numeric and character entity references, control codes, and special areas and format characters.
A comprehensive list of symbols and signs used in typography with Latin script, with Unicode names, aliases, and links to related articles. Find out the meaning, function, and usage of various symbols such as apostrophe, asterisk, at sign, caret, circumflex, etc.
the most common special characters, such as é, are in the character set, so code like é, although allowed, is not needed. Note that Special:Export exports using UTF-8 even if the database is encoded in ISO 8859-1, at least that was the case for the English Wikipedia, already when it used version 1.4.
This is also the case for several other special punctuation characters. Copy editor Ashley Bischoff recently reminded everyone the en- and em-dashes are hiding under the standard hyphen key.
Learn about the international standard to map characters to unique machine-readable data values, enabling computer software interoperability and multilingual text processing. Find out how the UCS is divided into planes, blocks, categories, and properties, and how to reference characters by code points or names.
Use a special-character link to enter a Unicode character. Links are available under Special characters above the edit window, and below the buttons at the bottom of the edit window (for more information on the latter, see Help:CharInsert). Clicking a special-character link enters that character at the current position of the cursor in the edit ...
Specials is a Unicode block of 16 code points at U+FFF0–FFFF, including the replacement character (U+FFFD), a symbol for encoding errors. The replacement character is often displayed as a black rhombus with a white question mark, but it has no official name or glyph.
Miscellaneous Symbols is a Unicode block containing glyphs representing various concepts, such as astrology, chess, weather, and warning signs. The web page shows the code chart, the official name, and the common meaning of each symbol in the block.