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Unicode Characters with Example

This post was written and distributed with the intention of elucidating the "Unicode characters," which constitute the subject that warrants the most attention when discussing computer programming languages.

Unicode is basically a universal character encoding standard that assigns a code to each and every character and symbol and is available in every language, such as English, French, Japanese, Hebrew, Russian, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic, etc., all over the world.

Since most of the programs used in today's world are almost internationalized, the same program might produce error messages in other languages in other regions. For example, while designing the web and creating the content for the web, these languages can be used. And some of the websites also include some special characters and emoji symbols.

Let us explain Unicode in a nutshell.That being said, why do we need Unicode?
Unicode allows everyone to use their own language on a computer or phone. For instance, a character could say, I may be considered different characters in two languages. As a result, Unicode allows for the unique identification of each and every character from all languages around the world.

Note: Unicode assigns a code to every character all over the world. The code is an integer value. The range of the code is from 0 to 0x10FFFF. For example, the code point of a Latin small letter is 0061 or U+0061.

If you want to find out all the codes for all characters in all languages around the world, you can refer to the Character Map available on your computer system. Here is a snapshot of the opened character map:

character map window

Now click on the character a to find its Unicode value. Here is the snapshot after clicking on the a to display its code:

character map a Unicode value

You can see the arrow indicated at the bottom left. The code of the selected character is displayed there. If you want to change to the "Character Set." Then, click the "Advanced View" button, and then select "Character Set" from the drop-down menu. Here is the snapshot:

character map change character set

A list of some well-known Unicode characters

The table that follows provides a list of some of the more significant Unicode characters, along with a brief description of each character and its associated decimal value.

Unicode Decimal Output Description
U+0000 0 Null character
U+0009 9 Horizontal tab
U+000B 11 Vertical tab
U+007F 127 Delete
U+0085 133 Next Line
U+0020 32 Space
U+0021 33 ! Exclamation mark
U+0022 34 " Quotation mark
U+0023 35 # Hash
U+0024 36 $ Dollar sign
U+0025 37 % Percent sign
U+0026 38 & Ampersand
U+0027 39 ' Apostrophe
U+0028 40 ( Opening parenthesis
U+0029 41 ) Closing parenthesis
U+002B 43 + Plus sign
U+002D 45 - Hyphen or minus
U+002A 42 * Asterisk
U+002F 47 / Slash
U+0030 48 0 Zero
U+0031 49 1 One
U+0032 50 2 Two
U+0033 51 3 Three
U+0034 52 4 Four
U+0035 53 5 Five
U+0036 54 6 Six
U+0037 55 7 Seven
U+0038 56 8 Eight
U+0039 57 9 Nine
U+003A 58 : Colon
U+003B 59 ; Semicolon
U+003C 60 < Less-than sign
U+003D 61 = Equal sign
U+003E 62 > Greater-than sign
U+003F 63 ? Question mark
U+0040 64 @ At sign
U+0041 65 A Capital letter A
U+0042 66 B Capital letter B
U+0043 67 C Capital letter C
U+0044 68 D Capital letter D
U+0045 69 E Capital letter E
U+0046 70 F Capital letter F
U+0047 71 G Capital letter G
U+0048 72 H Capital letter H
U+0049 73 I Capital letter I
U+004A 74 J Capital letter J
U+004B 75 K Capital letter K
U+004C 76 L Capital letter L
U+004D 77 M Capital letter M
U+004E 78 N Capital letter N
U+004F 79 O Capital letter O
U+0050 80 P Capital letter P
U+0051 81 Q Capital letter Q
U+0052 82 R Capital letter R
U+0053 83 S Capital letter S
U+0054 84 T Capital letter T
U+0055 85 U Capital letter U
U+0056 86 V Capital letter V
U+0057 87 W Capital letter W
U+0058 88 X Capital letter X
U+0059 89 Y Capital letter Y
U+005A 90 Z Capital letter Z
U+005B 91 [ Opening Square Bracket
U+005D 93 ] Closing Square Bracket
U+0061 97 a Small Letter A
U+0062 98 b Small Letter B
U+0063 99 c Small Letter C
U+0064 100 d Small Letter D
U+0065 101 e Small Letter E
U+0066 102 f Small Letter F
U+0067 103 g Small Letter G
U+0068 104 h Small Letter H
U+0069 105 i Small Letter I
U+006A 106 j Small Letter J
U+006B 107 k Small Letter K
U+006C 108 l Small Letter L
U+006D 109 m Small Letter M
U+006E 110 n Small Letter N
U+006F 111 o Small Letter O
U+0070 112 p Small Letter P
U+0071 113 q Small Letter Q
U+0072 114 r Small Letter R
U+0073 115 s Small Letter S
U+0074 116 t Small Letter T
U+0075 117 u Small Letter U
U+0076 118 v Small Letter V
U+0077 119 w Small Letter W
U+0078 120 x Small Letter X
U+0079 121 y Small Letter Y
U+007A 122 z Small Letter Z
U+007B 123 { Opening curly bracket
U+007C 124 | Vertical bar
U+007D 125 } Closing curly bracket

In the Unicode table above, you can see that when the code reaches the tens, alphabetical symbols, such as A, are used. Because there are only 16 symbols allowed in hexadecimal, they are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, and F. The characters A-F represent 10-15.

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