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unicode. Unicode is the universal character encoding, maintained by the Unicode Consortium. This encoding standard provides the basis for processing, storage and interchange of text data in any language in all modern software and information technology protocols.
In text processing, Unicode takes the role of providing a unique code point—a number, not a glyph—for each character. In other words, Unicode represents a character in an abstract way and leaves the visual rendering (size, shape, font, or style) to other software, such as a web browser or word processor.
Code point: U+1F600 😀
Short Name: grinning face with smiling eyes
Source:stackoverflow,wikipedia
Unicode Plane
| Plane | Allocated code points | Assigned characters |
|---|---|---|
| 0 BMP | 65520 | 55,632 |
| 1 SMP | 25,696 | 22,982 |
| 2 SIP | 60,912 | 60,872 |
| 3 TIP | 4,944 | 4,939 |
| 14 SSP | 368 | 337 |
| 15 SPUA-A | 65,536 | none |
| 16 SPUA-B | 65,536 | none |
| Totals | 288,512 | 144,762 |
Source:wikipedia
UTF-16. (16-bit Unicode Transformation Format) A character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid character code points of Unicode. It is used by systems such as the Microsoft Windows API, the Java programming language and JavaScript/ECMAScript. That is also the reason for building this application as to facilitate i18n development in JS.
E.g.
4 Hex digit (Surrogate Pair) : \ud83d\ude00 😀
js-escape-format : \u{1f600} 😀
Source:wikipedia
ISO-10646. Universal Coded Character Set (UCS, Unicode) is a standard set of characters defined by the International Standard ISO/IEC 10646.
Although the character codes and encoding forms are synchronized between Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646, the Unicode Standard imposes additional constraints on implementations to ensure that they treat characters uniformly across platforms and applications.
Source:wikipedia,unicode.org
ASCII. (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) A character encoding standard.
Source:wikipedia
HTML Entity. Entities are used to implement reserved characters or to express characters that cannot easily be entered with the keyboard.
Source:entitycode.com