Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement is a Unicode block consisting of Latin alphabet characters and Arabic numerals enclosed in circles, ovals or boxes, used for a variety of purposes. It is encoded in the range U+1F100–U+1F1FF in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane .
6-675: The block is mostly an extension of the Enclosed Alphanumerics block, containing further enclosed alphanumeric characters which are not included in that block or Enclosed CJK Letters and Months . Most of the characters are single alphanumerics in boxes or circles, or with trailing commas. Two of the symbols are identified as dingbats . A number of multiple-letter enclosed abbreviations are also included, mostly to provide compatibility with Broadcast Markup Language standards (see ARIB STD B24 character set ) and Japanese telecommunications networks' emoji sets. The block also includes
12-825: A full stop. It is currently fully allocated. Within the Basic Multilingual Plane , a few additional enclosed numerals are in the Dingbats and the Enclosed CJK Letters and Months blocks. There is also a block with more of these characters in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane named Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (U+1F100–U+1F1FF), as of Unicode 6.0 . Many of these characters were originally intended for use as bullets for lists. The parenthesized forms are historically based on typewriter approximations of
18-540: A text presentation. Their appearance depends on the program (such as a browser) and the fonts used: The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block: Enclosed Alphanumerics Enclosed Alphanumerics is a Unicode block of typographical symbols of an alphanumeric within a circle, a bracket or other not-closed enclosure, or ending in
24-554: The circled C , P or R characters which are defined as copyright and trademark symbols or the circled a used for an at sign. A circled s (Ⓢ) was used in documents circa 1900 printed by German missionaries, especially the Basel Mission , in the Malayalam language to denote a ditto mark . The Enclosed Alphanumerics block contains one emoji : U+24C2, the enclosed M used as a symbol for mask works . It defaults to
30-494: The regional indicator symbols to be used for emoji country flag support. The Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement block contains 41 emoji : U+1F170, U+1F171, U+1F17E, U+1F17F, U+1F18E, U+1F191 – U+1F19A and U+1F1E6 – U+1F1FF. The block has eight standardized variants defined to specify emoji-style (U+FE0F VS16) or text presentation (U+FE0E VS15) for the following four base characters: U+1F170, U+1F171, U+1F17E & U+1F17F. All of these base characters are defined as defaulting to
36-502: The circled versions. Although these roles have been supplanted by styles and other markup in "rich text" contexts, the characters are included in the Unicode standard "for interoperability with the legacy East Asian character sets and for the occasional text context where such symbols otherwise occur." The Unicode Standard considers these characters to be distinct from characters which are similar in form but specialized in purpose, such as
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