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Unicode HTML-entity browser

When you code HTML you have the possibility to encode Unicode characters as HTML entities. For example, the < character is reserved in HTML so you’ll have to write it as &lt; or &#60; where 60 is the decimal code point in Unicode.

There are well over 100,000 Unicode characters. Today I made this online tool for browsing through all of them. I found some funny ones:

 ۩ ⌨ ⌚

Note that these are actual characters and not images (they may not render well if you’re using an out-of-date browser). There are also a lot of asian characters, ancient runes from the Futhark (here) and scientific sybols. I think they are quite beautiful.