
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 ...