This page attempts to document standards and infrastructure for presentation of Unicode-related information on Wikipedia. It may also serve as a gathering point for work on building the same.
Unicode-related templates.
Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia Commons host many images of glyphs — characters rendered in a given font. In article text, we generally prefer to use literal Unicode characters, not these rendered images. Thus, these images are primarily used in articles about characters, where an illustration is appropriate. In particular, any #Unicode tables provide both the literal character and an image of the character.
Ideally, all such glyph images would be vector graphics, in SVG format. However, many exist in a raster graphics format, such as GIF. Converting or replacing these with SVGs is something that should be done.
As of this writing, there is no standardized naming of these images. Sometimes an expression of the codepoint is used as the file name, e.g.,
U+2122.svg
. In other cases, the character name is used, e.g.,
OCR-A char Quotation Mark.svg
.
Many articles dealing with Unicode include tables of Unicode characters. The standard form for such tables is as given in the following example.
Char | Image | Name | Hex | Decimal |
---|---|---|---|---|
☷ | Trigram for Earth | U+2637 | 9783 | |
☸ | Wheel of Dharma | U+2638 | 9784 | |
☹ | White frowning face ( Emoticon) | U+2639 | 9785 | |
☺ | White smiling face ( Emoticon) | U+263a | 9786 |
Char | The literal character. If your computer lacks Unicode support, you may see other symbols instead of the proper character. |
---|---|
Image | A sample image of the character, rendered in an example font. |
Name | The official name of the character. Additional information may be given in parenthesis. |
Hex | The numeric code point for the character, in hexadecimal (base 16), with "U+" prefix. |
Decimal | The same code point value, expressed in decimal (base 10). |
The table format has the following design features:
U+
” prefix is used for hex, per the Unicode standardThis page attempts to document standards and infrastructure for presentation of Unicode-related information on Wikipedia. It may also serve as a gathering point for work on building the same.
Unicode-related templates.
Wikipedia and/or Wikimedia Commons host many images of glyphs — characters rendered in a given font. In article text, we generally prefer to use literal Unicode characters, not these rendered images. Thus, these images are primarily used in articles about characters, where an illustration is appropriate. In particular, any #Unicode tables provide both the literal character and an image of the character.
Ideally, all such glyph images would be vector graphics, in SVG format. However, many exist in a raster graphics format, such as GIF. Converting or replacing these with SVGs is something that should be done.
As of this writing, there is no standardized naming of these images. Sometimes an expression of the codepoint is used as the file name, e.g.,
U+2122.svg
. In other cases, the character name is used, e.g.,
OCR-A char Quotation Mark.svg
.
Many articles dealing with Unicode include tables of Unicode characters. The standard form for such tables is as given in the following example.
Char | Image | Name | Hex | Decimal |
---|---|---|---|---|
☷ | Trigram for Earth | U+2637 | 9783 | |
☸ | Wheel of Dharma | U+2638 | 9784 | |
☹ | White frowning face ( Emoticon) | U+2639 | 9785 | |
☺ | White smiling face ( Emoticon) | U+263a | 9786 |
Char | The literal character. If your computer lacks Unicode support, you may see other symbols instead of the proper character. |
---|---|
Image | A sample image of the character, rendered in an example font. |
Name | The official name of the character. Additional information may be given in parenthesis. |
Hex | The numeric code point for the character, in hexadecimal (base 16), with "U+" prefix. |
Decimal | The same code point value, expressed in decimal (base 10). |
The table format has the following design features:
U+
” prefix is used for hex, per the Unicode standard