Unicode Explained

different. Thus, you could type the letter “a,” and then change the font to a special one,

and get checkmark ✓ (U+2713). However, this is not the Unicode way.

This block of Unicode in general does not contain all the graphics that have been im-

plemented in different specialized fonts. For example, corporate logos are excluded.

Many of the symbols in the Windings fonts commonly available in computers have not

been coded as characters in Unicode at all.

Summary of Blocks

Table 8-14 lists all blocks as defined in Unicode Version 4.1 and planned for Version

5.0. The up-to-date summary information on blocks is in the file Blocks.txt in the Uni-

code character database, available online at http://www.unicode.org. Many blocks cor-

respond more or less directly to some specific scripts (writing systems) discussed in

Chapter 7.

Table 8-14. Unicode 4.1 blocks

Code range Name of block Notes

0000..007F Basic Latin ASCII

0080..00FF Latin-1 Supplement Upper half of Latin 1

0100..017F Latin Extended-A

0180..024F Latin Extended-B

0250..02AF IPA Extensions Phonetic symbols

02B0..02FF Spacing Modifier Letters

0300..036F Combining Diacritical Marks

0370..03FF Greek and Coptic

0400..04FF Cyrillic

0500..052F Cyrillic Supplement

0530..058F Armenian

0590..05FF Hebrew

0600..06FF Arabic

0700..074F Syriac

0750..077F Arabic Supplement

0780..07BF Thaana

07C0..07FF NKo Proposed (Unicode 5.0)

0900..097F Devanagari ...