Unicode Demystified

Chapter 12. Numbers, Punctuation, Symbols, and Specials

It's been a long trip, but we've finally covered all of the writing systems in Unicode 3.2. But we're not done yet with our guided tour of the character repertoire. At this point, we've looked at the characters in Unicode that are used to write words—the letters, syllables, ideographs, diacritical marks, and so on that are used to write the languages of the world. In this chapter, we'll look at everything else:

• Characters used to write numeric values, and the characters used with them

• Punctuation marks

• Special Unicode characters and noncharacter code point values, including control characters, invisible formatting characters, noncharacters, and other characters with special properties

• Symbols ...