There is U+1F50D LEFT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS (🔍) and U+1F50E RIGHT-POINTING MAGNIFYING GLASS (🔎). You should use (in HTML) 🔍 or 🔎 They are, however not supported by many fonts (fileformat.info only lists a few fonts as supporting the Codepoint with a proper glyph). Also note that they are outside of the BMP, so some Unicode-capable … Read more
As Rasmus states in his article “The difference between UTF-8 and Unicode?”: If asked the question, “What is the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode?”, would you confidently reply with a short and precise answer? In these days of internationalization all developers should be able to do that. I suspect many of us do not understand … Read more
Try: chcp 65001 which will change the code page to UTF-8. Also, you need to use Lucida console fonts.
I followed an example in another repository and wrapped the directory structure within a pair of triple backticks (“`): “` project │ README.md │ file001.txt │ └───folder1 │ │ file011.txt │ │ file012.txt │ │ │ └───subfolder1 │ │ file111.txt │ │ file112.txt │ │ … │ └───folder2 │ file021.txt │ file022.txt “`
Going down your list: “Unicode” isn’t an encoding, although unfortunately, a lot of documentation imprecisely uses it to refer to whichever Unicode encoding that particular system uses by default. On Windows and Java, this often means UTF-16; in many other places, it means UTF-8. Properly, Unicode refers to the abstract character set itself, not to … Read more
Why do we need Unicode? In the (not too) early days, all that existed was ASCII. This was okay, as all that would ever be needed were a few control characters, punctuation, numbers and letters like the ones in this sentence. Unfortunately, today’s strange world of global intercommunication and social media was not foreseen, and … Read more
ASCII defines 128 characters, which map to the numbers 0–127. Unicode defines (less than) 221 characters, which, similarly, map to numbers 0–221 (though not all numbers are currently assigned, and some are reserved). Unicode is a superset of ASCII, and the numbers 0–127 have the same meaning in ASCII as they have in Unicode. For … Read more
The UTF-8 BOM is a sequence of bytes at the start of a text stream (0xEF, 0xBB, 0xBF) that allows the reader to more reliably guess a file as being encoded in UTF-8. Normally, the BOM is used to signal the endianness of an encoding, but since endianness is irrelevant to UTF-8, the BOM is … Read more
UTF-8 has an advantage in the case where ASCII characters represent the majority of characters in a block of text, because UTF-8 encodes these into 8 bits (like ASCII). It is also advantageous in that a UTF-8 file containing only ASCII characters has the same encoding as an ASCII file. UTF-16 is better where ASCII … Read more
To expand on the answers others have given: We’ve got lots of languages with lots of characters that computers should ideally display. Unicode assigns each character a unique number, or code point. Computers deal with such numbers as bytes… skipping a bit of history here and ignoring memory addressing issues, 8-bit computers would treat an … Read more