Graphic characters

A graphic character is a character for an ornament , a graphically designed character that is neither a letter nor a number, nor a special or control character.

Graphic signs serve to replace missing graphic skills at least in a rudimentary way. These include B. Characters for drawing tables and bar graphs. On the other hand, graphic characters complement the common character sets . Such additional character sets contain partly decorations, but partly also meaningful characters (e.g. post box symbol).

Examples of graphic fonts are Wingdings and Zapf Dingbats . Unicode blocks with graphic characters are Arrows (2190-21FF) Various technical character (2300-23FF) block elements (2580-259F) Geometric shapes (25A0-25FF) Dingbats (2700-27BF) Miscellaneous Symbols (U + 2600 –U + 26FF), Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows (2B00–2BFF).