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English text has the occasional diacritics. Loan words, like née, café, entrée Names, like Noël and Chloë Place names, like Montréal and Québec

Emoji are quite popular with social media these days. ☃: U+2603 — SNOWMAN 😀: U+01F600 — GRINNING FACE 🐪: U+01F42A — DROMEDARY CAMEL Note that most emoji are outside the Basic Multilingual Plane. A lot of newer additions consist of more than one code point: 🇯🇵: A flag is defined as a p...

Almost all written text has punctuation marks which are outside the ASCII character set: dashes: the en dash –, and the em dash — Quotation marks: “quotes” rather than "quotes" The ellipsis…

There are a few common symbols in use: copyright sign ©, and trademark signs ® ™ fractions like ¼ superscripts. For instance, a shorthand for square meters is m².