- Unicode Geometric Shapes
Geometric Shapes is a
Unicode block of 96 symbols at hex codepoint range 25A0-25FF. This range contains various geometric shapes.Font coverage
Only two
font sets—Code2000 and the DejaVu family—incude coverage for each of the glyphs in the Geometric Shapes range.cite web | url=http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/geometric_shapes/fontsupport.htm | title=Font Support for Unicode Block 'Geometric Shapes' | accessdate=2008-09-17] However, among the fonts in widespread use, [cite web | url=http://www.fonts.com.hk/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=246 | title=Mac OS X 10.5 bundled with Arial Unicode MS | accessdate=2008-09-17] [cite web | url=http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html | title=Common fonts to all versions of Windows & Mac equivalents | accessdate=2008-09-17] significant partial implementation of this range is provided byArial Unicode MS andLucida Sans Unicode , which include coverage for 83% (80 out of 96) and 82% (79 out of 96) of the symbols, respectively. TheY.OzFont family also implements a majority (83%; 80 out of 96) of the symbols in this range.(25A0-25CF)
(25D0-25FF)
References
ee also
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Unicode Symbols
*Mapping of Unicode characters External links
* http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U25A0.pdf
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