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The Last Resort Font

The last fall-back font in OS X is called "Last Resort" and is a special font that gives you the code block of each text character so you know what font to get.

The Unicode Character-Glyph Model: Case Studies (PDF)

A paper by John H. Jenkins at the Fifteenth International Unicode Conference.

New Ideographs in Unicode 3.0 and Beyond (PDF)

A paper by John H. Jenkins at the Fifteenth International Unicode Conference.

Related Links

The Unicode Consortium

Source of the latest code charts and reference data.

The Unicode Charts

Download PDF charts of every block of Unicode.

Unicode Checker Utility

Download this free 3rd party utility to get to know every plane and code point in Unicode.

Evertype

Michael Everson is a co-editor of Unicode and researches new scripts for inclusion in the standard. His website has extensive information on European languages, encodings and how to propose additions to Unicode.

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