Unicode: Character Name
Character Name
A unique name is given to each unicode Code Point .
Note: a unicode codepoint may have 1 or more old names, due to character's name change in the early days, in Unicode version 2 in 1996. However, a name still uniquely refer to 1 codepoint.
Examples:
- A U+41: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
- α U+3B1: GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA
- Ж U+416: CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER ZHE
- → U+2192: RIGHTWARDS ARROW
- ♥ U+2665: BLACK HEART SUIT
- ¥ U+A5: YEN SIGN
- ✂ U+2702: BLACK SCISSORS
- 😂 U+1F602: FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY
Unicode and Encoding Explained
- Unicode for Coders. Index
- Unicode: Character Set, Encoding, UTF-8, Code Point
- Unicode: Code Point (Char ID)
- Unicode: Character Name
- ASCII Characters
- Unicode: Basic Multilingual Plane
- Unicode: UTF-8 Encoding
- Unicode: UTF-16 Encoding
- Unicode: Surrogate Pair
- Unicode: Byte Order (Endianness)
- Unicode: BOM, Byte Order Mark
- Set Text Editor File Encoding
- Unicode: Letter Character
- Unicode: Variation Selector