Dingbats (Unicode block)
Dingbats is a Unicode block containing dingbats (or typographical ornaments, like the ❦ FLORAL HEART character). Most of its characters were taken from Zapf Dingbats; it was the Unicode block to have imported characters from a specific typeface; Unicode later adopted a policy that excluded symbols with "no demonstrated need or strong desire to exchange in plain text", and thus no further dingbat typefaces were encoded until Webdings and Wingdings were encoded in Version 7.0. Some ornaments are also an emoji, having optional presentation variants (called variant selectors).
| Dingbats | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+2700..U+27BF (192 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Assigned | 192 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Source standards | ITC Zapf Dingbats series 100 |
| Unicode version history | |
| 1.0.0 (1991) | 160 (+160) |
| 3.2 (2002) | 174 (+14) |
| 5.2 (2009) | 175 (+1) |
| 6.0 (2010) | 191 (+16) |
| 7.0 (2014) | 192 (+1) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: | |
The block, originally named "Zapf Dingbats", was added to the Unicode Standard in October 1991, with the release of version 1.0. The block name was changed from "Zapf Dingbats" to "Dingbats" in June 1993, with the release of 1.1.