Overview#
Code Point or code position is any of the numerical values that make up the code space.[1]Many Code Point represent single characters but they can also have other meanings, such as for formatting.
For example, the character encoding scheme
- ASCII comprises 128 code points in the range 0hex to 7Fhex
- Extended ASCII comprises 256 code points in the range 0hex to FFhex, and Unicode comprises 1,114,112 code points in the range 0hex to 10FFFFhex.
- Unicode code space is divided into seventeen planes (the basic multilingual plane, and 16 supplementary planes), each with 65,536 (= 216) code points. Thus the total size of the Unicode code space is 17 × 65,536 = 1,114,112.
More Information#
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:- [#1] - Code_point
- based on information obtained 2017-05-10-
