Unicode compatibility characters: Difference between revisions

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Several blocks of Unicode characters include either entirely or almost entirely all compatibility characters (U+F900–U+FFEF except for the nonchars). The compatibility blocks contain none of the semantically distinct compatibility characters with only one exception: the rial currency symbol (﷼ U+FDFC) so the compatibility decomposable characters in the compatibility blocks fall unambiguously into the set of discouraged characters. Unicode recommends authors use the plain text compatibility decomposition equivalents instead and complement those characters with rich text markup. This approach is much more flexible and open-ended than using the finite set of circled or enclosed alphanumerics to give just one example.

Unfortunately, thereThere are a small number of characters even within the compatibility blocks that themselves are not compatibility characters and therefore may confuse authors. The "Enclosed CJK Letters and Months" block contains a single non-compatibility character: the 'Korean Standard Symbol' (㉿ U+327F). That symbol and 12 other characters have been included in the blocks for unknown reasons. The "CJK Compatibility Ideographs" block contains these non-compatibility unified Han ideographs:

# (U+FA0E): 﨎