Mac 911 How Unicode is supported in macOS The Unicode standard is a numbering system; fonts require individual drawings to represent characters.

When it comes to managing the vast array of unicode characters in modern font sets, Apple's character viewer tool can be exceptionally useful.

The difference has to be stored, so the characters have to be encoded somehow. Is there a unicode compatible way to encoding those that aren't in unicode?

Unicode 7.0 introduces 2,834 new characters, including 250 emoji New release doesn't do much for diversity, but at least you can flip the bird.