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:

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

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:

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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