Unicode Explained

Appendix, Tables for Writing Characters

The Appendix provides some commonly needed information useful for entering

characters. It includes tables of key sequences, as well as a mapping chart from the

Symbol font to Unicode.

Self-Assessment Test

To estimate your progress in knowledge about Unicode, you can perform the following

self-assessment test. Read the following statements and comment on each of them with

one of the following alternatives (using whatever symbols you find convenient, such as

those in parentheses): “I do not understand what the statement says” (??), “I know what

it says but I do not know whether it is true” (?), “true” (+), and false (–). Moreover, for

any “true” or “false” answer, consider what you would present as an argument in a

discussion in which someone says you’re wrong.

At any point in reading the book, and especially when you think you have learned

enough, reread the statements and perform the test again. You might regard the fol-

lowing as a spoiler, so it has been written backward so that you can hopefully ignore

it at this point if you like. It reveals what the test is about: .elpoep ot siht nialpxe ot

deen thgim uoy dna ,gnorw era yeht yhw wonk ot laitnesse si ti ecnis ,hguoht ,siht

gniwonk htiw deifsitas eb ton dluohs uoY .eslaf lla era yeht tub ,skoob ecnerefer ni neve

edam ylnommoc era stnemetats ehT

1. Unicode is a 16-bit character code.

2. Unicode contains all ...