The Unicode standard is a numbering system; fonts require individual drawings to represent characters.

Unicode is a massive, sprawling effort that pairs a number to every unique character in a language, every punctuation mark, every math symbol, and much more.

What is a Unicode character? On whatever computer you use, there is a system that allows you to type special symbols and characters.

The character set is used in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), which is used to create web pages. Thanks to Unicode, a special HTML code sequence reverses the order of text from left to right.