XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Other Unicode Blocks

So far we’ve accounted for a little over 300 of the more than 90,000 Unicode characters. Many thousands are still unaccounted for. Outside the ranges defined in XHTML and SGML, standard entity names don’t exist. You should either use an editor that can produce the characters you need in the appropriate character set or you should use character references. Most of the 90,000-plus Unicode characters are either Han ideographs, Hangul syllables, or rarely used characters. However, we do list a few of the most useful blocks later in this chapter. Others can be found online at http://www.unicode.org/charts/ or in The Unicode Standard 4.0 by the Unicode Consortium (Addison Wesley).

In the tables that follow, the upper lefthand corner contains the character’s hexadecimal Unicode value, and the upper righthand corner contains the character’s decimal Unicode value. You can use either value to form a character reference so as to use these characters in element content and attribute values, even without an editor or fonts that support them.