Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement
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The Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement is a Unicode block
consisting mostly of Latin alphabet
characters 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.
It also includes the Regional Indicator Symbol
s to be used for emoji
country flag support.
Unicode block
In Unicode, a block is defined as one contiguous range of code points. Blocks are named uniquely and have no overlap. They may be defined with the starting and ending code points. The block explicitly can include code points that are unassigned and non-characters. Code points not belonging to any...
consisting mostly of Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most recognized alphabet used in the world today. It evolved from a western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumaean alphabet, which was adopted and modified by the Etruscans who ruled early Rome...
characters 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.
It also includes the Regional Indicator Symbol
Regional Indicator Symbol
The Regional Indicator Symbols are a set of 26 alphabetic characters in the Universal Character Set intended to be used to encode ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 two-letter country codes in a way that allows optional special treatment....
s to be used for emoji
Emoji
is the Japanese term for the picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese electronic messages and webpages. Originally meaning pictograph, the word literally means e "picture" + moji "letter". The characters are used much like emoticons elsewhere, but a wider range is provided, and the icons...
country flag support.