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Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats (or typographical ornaments, like the FLORAL HEART character). Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a policy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text", [3] and thus no further ...
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] {{Unicode chart Dingbats}} provides a table listing the characters in the Dingbats block of Unicode. 33 characters in this block are considered emoji ; their cells can be highlighted using an optional parameter.
33 of the 192 code points in the Dingbats block are considered emoji. All of the 80 code points in the Emoticons block are considered emoji. 83 of the 256 code points in the Miscellaneous Symbols block are considered emoji. 637 of the 768 code points in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block are considered emoji. 242 of the 256 code ...
The Dingbats block (U+2700–U+27BF) (under the original block name "Zapf Dingbats", so named for type designer Hermann Zapf) was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991, with the release of version 1.0. This code block contains decorative character variants, and other marks of emphasis and non-textual symbolism.
In Unicode 1.0 (1991) the same block was named Miscellaneous Dingbats (not to be confused with current "Dingbats" block, which was then renamed to "Zapf Dingbats"). [ 9 ] The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols block:
1. ^ As of Unicode version 16.0 Template documentation [ view ] [ edit ] [ history ] [ purge ] {{ Unicode chart Ornamental Dingbats }} provides a list of Unicode code points in the Ornamental Dingbats block.
33 of the 192 code points in the Dingbats block are considered emoji. All of the 80 code points in the Emoticons block are considered emoji. 83 of the 256 code points in the Miscellaneous Symbols block are considered emoji. 637 of the 768 code points in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block are considered emoji. 242 of the 256 code ...
A numeric character reference refers to a character by its Universal Character Set/Unicode code point, and a character entity reference refers to a character by a predefined name. A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form.