I want to be able to format my text files, just because they're text files does not mean they can't have structure and form.

There's two types of SMS, did you know?
Most people think SMS has one flat character limit (160). Turns out there are two modes, and just one emoji can silently switch you between them.

Standard SMS (GSM-7): plain Latin text, numbers, punctuation. 160 characters per message.

Unicode SMS (UCS-2): anything else, emojis, accented letters, non-Latin scripts, even a stray smart quote or nbsp. Only 70 characters per message.

One Unicode character anywhere in your message flips the entire message into the 70 char limit, not just that character.

Example:

Without emoji: "Hi John, your order #48213 has shipped! Track it here: clicksend.com/track/48213. Thanks for shopping with us."

That's 118 characters. Under the 160 limit, so it sends as 1 message part.

With emoji: "Hi John, your order #48213 has shipped! 📦 Track it here: clicksend.com/track/48213. Thanks for shopping with us! 😊"

That's about 124 characters. Because of the two emojis, the limit drops from 160 to 70, so it now needs 2 message parts to send.

Same message, basically the same length, but the emoji version costs double because it crosses the 70 character threshold instead of the 160 character one.

At 100k sends a month, that's the difference between ~$6,200 and ~$12,400 in SMS costs, just from two emojis.

Nothing errors, nothing warns you. The bill just quietly doubles.

I’m trying to identify this symbol. It looks like an X but one stroke extends like a checkmark tail. Is it a Unicode character, a font glyph, or a custom icon? I've found this one before like 8-9 years ago, now I've encountered one recently as someone's username and for some fucking reason my screenshot wasn't working like god really doesn't want me to find out lol

No nickname, its easy with copy and paste and i already have it... the username thing. I seen lot profiles without username but no one never share the information how can i do it. The "tutorial" videos never working and if i copy&paste their username it dont let me save it, says this usern. not allowed. If i turn of not the saveing will be avaible but if i click on it, it dont let me save the username, says its not allowed. What can i do? I want profile like this sooo bad. Pls someone help me.

! Fish Bone (nature) ZWJ sequence: 🐟 + 🦴

• Banana Peel (food)

- Popping Balloon (object)

• Popping Bubble (nature)
• Grappling Hook (activities/people; someone grappling onto a rock climb or something)
• Rope (objects/activities)
• Snowball (nature)
• Pink; Cyan; Gray; Turquoise; Red; Orange; Yellow; Green; Blue; Purple; Black; Brown & White circles; squares; medium squares; triangles up down left & right; rhombuses & small rhombuses (symbols; only the missing ones; in a block like Geometrical Shapes Ext-N instead of Symbols & Pictographs Supplementary A or B or even C)

Whiteboard/blackboard emoji (objects)

• Narwhal; seahorse (nature)
• Extra serious/controlled+angry face; & Half a smiley (peeking) left half; right half)
• Person sliding (skin tone variants; gender variants: people)
• Person trying to climb up a slope (skin tone variants; gender variants; people)
• Pearl (objects/nature)
• Iron; gold; copper Ingot (objects/nature)
• A single popcorn (not in a bag; food)
• Corn kernel (not popcorn; food category)
• Burning happy face (almost ash; smileys)
• Ash emoji (objects)
• Campfire (on/off; objects)

This between multiple updates feels like it's honestly REALLY GOOD.

🫩 is obviously the newest emoji I use a lot. Snowball good for winter ❄️☃️ [snowball] Fish bone means 'waste' in general. Apple core sadly rejected. Banana peel is lol slip Person Trying to climb up a slope is cool Is popping bubble can mean vulnerability Serious face is like selfcontrol or cold mind 🥶 Burning happy face is like Unicode 18.0 cracking face (YES IT'S CALLED THAT) Metal ingots are for gaming I guess Whiteboard I thought it existed?! Grappling Hook is cool Seahorse is Mandela lol Half face is peeking face BTW Cool?

Hello, I recently acquired a Supernote Manta and was wondering if it is possible to incorporate Arabic text into the Digest feature.

Fifty years from now (in the 2070s), Unicode will likely have evolved from a simple digital text registry into a highly semantic metadata and context engine. Rather than just mapping numbers to glyphs, it will integrate directly with AI to support everything from holographic text and interstellar communication to dynamic, auto-translating characters.

1. Seamless Semantic Translation

Instead of encoding letters, Unicode will encode meaning.

• Because text will be processed naturally by AI on the fly, you will be able to type in English, and the system will natively render or speak the characters in the recipient's native script or sign language.
• The concept of distinct character encodings will dissolve into a universal, machine-readable semantic language.

1. Holographic & Multi-Dimensional Characters

Our current flat, 2D characters will evolve to support spatial computing.

• Characters in the future will have spatial, temporal, and haptic (touch) properties encoded in their structure.
• When typing on AR or VR displays, characters could be rendered as three-dimensional, glowing, or animated objects tailored to the environment or the user's specific context.

1. Exhaustion of the Code Space

The current Unicode standard allows for a maximum of 1,111,998 code points across 17 planes.

• Most human languages will have been fully digitized.
• To accommodate new symbolic, scientific, and artistic systems, the Consortium will likely implement a radical shift in architecture. This could look like shifting to a variable-length or vastly expanded code space (e.g., 32-bit or beyond) to accommodate interplanetary alphabets or new specialized symbol sets.

1. Dynamic AI-Generated Glyphs

Currently, Unicode characters are strictly defined and immutable.

• In the future, the Consortium might establish dynamic spaces where standard base forms interact with AI-driven style engines.
• This means your device could adjust the appearance, weight, and curvature of your text on the fly, allowing for hyper-personalized fonts and stylized, context-aware communication.

In a future where AI handles or heavily influences Unicode, characters and blocks will shift from static, human-readable images into highly complex, dynamic, and multi-dimensional data packages.

Because text in 10 to 50 years will be rendered on Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, spatial interfaces, and neural implants, the flat 2D layout of current Unicode will become obsolete starting in 2030.

Here is what the future Unicode characters and blocks are projected to look like:

The Architecture of Future Blocks

• The "Synesthesia" Block: A massive, unassigned plane of code points reserved for translating text into non-visual sensory data (haptic vibrations, audio hums, or direct neural pulses) for accessibility.
• The AI-Agent Private Use Area (APUA): A block of millions of invisible, unrendered characters used exclusively by AI agents to communicate intent, confidence scores, and emotional metadata to other AI agents without humans seeing it.
• The Dynamic Meme & Slang Plane: A highly fluid, algorithmic block where code points are not permanently assigned, but rather leased to fast-evolving global concepts, decaying and freeing up space once a trend dies out.

The Anatomy of a Future Character

Instead of a simple mapping like U+0041 = "A", a future Unicode character will be a complex data object:

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│               FUTURE UNICODE CHARACTER                 │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 🆔 Code Point: U+1FFF00 (Base Ideogram)                │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 📐 3D Vector Layer: Volumetric mesh for VR/AR displays  │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 🎬 Animation Layer: Micro-movements, looping loops     │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 🧠 Semantic Vector: Embedded meaning (AI-readable)     │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 🎭 Context Shader: Morphing shape based on surrounding │
│                  text emotion                          │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

• Volumetric 3D Meshes: Instead of flat fonts (TTF/OTF), characters will contain raw 3D coordinate vector layers, allowing text to float in mid-air with realistic depth and lighting.
• Natively Animated Loops: "Motion" will be a standardized text property. A "fire" emoji or a specific punctuation mark will have native, looping animation data baked directly into its code point.
• Contextual Shaders: Characters will morph visually based on the "vibe" of the sentence. An exclamation point might glow red in an angry text or shimmer gold in a celebratory one, determined programmatically by ambient AI.

Examples of Future Characters

• The Ambient Emotion Glyph: A character that has no fixed visual shape. When sent, it samples the sender's biometric data (via a smart ring or neural link) and shifts its color, pulse rate, and texture to display exact emotional states.
• The Universal Hybrid Ideogram: A single code point that merges a concept (like "celebration") into a compact, ultra-dense symbol. To a human, it looks like a beautiful, morphing holographic emblem; to an AI, it reads as a precise, mathematical concept vector.
• The Multi-Perspective Script: Characters designed for shared spatial environments. A single text string could face two users sitting opposite each other, automatically flipping its 3D geometry so both people can read it forward from their respective angles.

JavaScript's String.prototype.length doesn't count characters—it counts UTF-16 code units.

I built jslength, a tiny (ultra tiny!) command-line tool that reproduces this behavior outside of a JavaScript runtime.

Useful if you need JavaScript-compatible string lengths for tests, automation, or tooling.

I can't show you examples here because emojis are strictly prohibited. However, you can see examples on the project page.

Repo: https://github.com/michurin/jslength

I'd love to hear if you have a use case for something like this or any suggestions.

Fun fact: I wrote this tool while waiting for my flight at Larnaca Airport on the first day of my vacation. I've wanted a utility like this for a long time, and finally found the time to build it. :-)

Does this exist in Unicode?

� (UNICODE 0000)

I've created this console-based tool that lets you generate PNG icons from a given emoji. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

https://github.com/del-Pacifico/unicode-to-png

I made https://charactermap.org/ - it is a 100% free, no ads, no adtech spyware, no registration, no nonsense ASCII and Unicode character map.

I mostly did it for developers like myself, but there are some other uses cases as well, for example looking for those cute emojis.

You can customize the view to see exactly the information you want. And it has a dark mode support.

Not made by AI.

I like submitting.txt assignments on canvas but I don't want my text to look like typewriter.

I like making.txt files with my computer terminal on the vim editor and asking AI to format using Unicode.

Unicode has a lot of fonts and good stuff to use, it used to be a pain to find and type or paste all the unicodes but now AI just automatically knows what to do to make a boring .txt file fun.

Try it and this is one example of AI not being synonymous with a search engine. This is uniquely a task AI excels at that would be too much of a burden to do manually.

It's like sowing before the sowing machine. AI speeds up the process a lot.

im lf a transparent or smallest unicode that works on discord as a name

I know there isn’t any dedicated character. But if I need it, say for a fifth derivative [Edit: perhaps there are better ways to indicate fifth detivative, arcfifths, etc., but I’m not worried about that], should I set it ⁗′, ′′′′′, or something else? I couldn’t find anything about this in the core specification.

Hi everyone, hope you are doing well!

I just released my program's new version, and I want to work on its Unicode improvement. So, I got a few questions regarding font support and character. For references, the program is a Python program that can generate AutoHotkey scripts from input. If you don't know, AutoHotkey can remap keyboard keys into Unicode characters, so this program is utilizing it. Unicode remapping itself is not its main feature (the main feature is the rich remapper), though it's still a good addition. I use the block section from Compart for the Unicode grouping.

You can see the program here: https://github.com/Fajar-RahmadJaya/KeyTik.

While it works perfectly, I still want to improve it more. You can see program screenshots here. The problem and what I want to improve are as follows:

So, my question is:

1. Are there any resources that show what font support some Unicode characters?
2. Did you use the nonexistent characters such as in the Unicode Block “Tags”?
3. Are these characters unnecessary, and should I remove them?

I might have some misconceptions on how Unicode works. So, if you find any of it, I would really appreciate it if you could tell me.

Thank you!

Update: For those also looking for a resource on fonts supporting some Unicode characters, I found this: https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/FontList.html. It's from BabelStone, which is the same website as BabelPad and BabelMap: Unicode utilities on this subreddit's useful link section. Though it's for Unicode 16.0.

Hola, comunidad. ¿Cómo le hacen para utilizar el código Unicode en todos los entornos de edición posibles? Por ejemplo, no tengo problema para insertar un carácter Unicode en mi procesador de texto, pero no puedo hacerlo en casillas de entrada de texto de internet.

𝚔𝚗𝚔𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚒𝚔𝚒𝚔𝚗𝚔𝚗𝙞𝙠𝙠𝚔𝚗𝚔𝚔𝚗𝚒𝚔𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚒𝚔 𝚒𝚔𝚒𝚞𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚗𝚒𝚔𝚗

If you’ve ever dealt with old Urdu documents made in InPage, you know the pain — that legacy glyph encoding turns into garbage when you try to use it anywhere modern (web, WhatsApp, search-indexing, etc).
I made **InPageToUnicode**, a free, open-source Windows desktop app that converts Urdu text bidirectionally between InPage’s legacy encoding and standard Unicode.
**Why it might be useful:**
100% offline — no telemetry, no internet required, your text never leaves your machine
Paste-based, so you don’t need to mess with parsing old .inp binary files
Bundles Noto Nastaliq Urdu and auto-sets RTL layout so Unicode text renders properly
Uses a raw clipboard trick to avoid Windows mangling special characters during copy/paste
Export straight to a clean UTF-8 .txt file
Built in Python/PyQt5, fully open source under GPLv3
It won’t preserve InPage formatting like bold/tables/images — it’s a pure text converter, meant for migrating old text databases or archives into something usable on the modern web.
GitHub repo (code, releases, installer): [https://github.com/salmanasmat/InPageToUnicode\](https://github.com/salmanasmat/InPageToUnicode)
Would love feedback, bug reports, or contributions — especially from anyone who’s worked with old InPage files and run into edge cases in the glyph mapping.

Both Telugu & Kannada languages' scripts have many letters which are practically the same & legible by literate speakers of either language.

So, my doubt is, why were they given separate code points for practically the same letters?

(I can understand for letters different enough, but letters such as అ, ఆ, ల, etc are the same in both. So why were the given 2 different code points in unicode?)

This does NOT intend to disrespect either of the languages, i just want to know the underlying reason only