Reverse-chronological. Every entry corresponds to a deploy. The site is rebuilt from the Unicode Character Database each time, so each entry includes the UCD version it was generated against.
2026-05-15 — Site launch
First public release of UnicodeCharacter.com. The site goes live with full coverage of the 154,998 assigned characters of Unicode 16.0 (released 2024-09-10), 327 blocks, 168 scripts, and 30 general categories. Editorial pages include nine long-form guides, six interactive tools, and a representative set of character detail pages for the most-looked-up codepoints. The site is statically generated from the UCD; no databases, no trackers, no JavaScript frameworks. The visual design is a one-person editorial system built around Cormorant Garamond, Inter Tight, and JetBrains Mono.
2026-03-20 — Pre-launch content expansion
Added four new block detail articles (General Punctuation, Mathematical Operators, Arrows, Currency Symbols) and re-rendered every character page with updated bidirectional-class metadata from the latest DerivedBidiClass.txt tables. Character pages now also display the Added in field from DerivedAge.txt so you can see in which Unicode version each codepoint was first assigned. Minor copy edits across the guides section.
2026-02-10 — Normalizer tool and emoji guide
Shipped the Unicode normalizer, a four-panel widget that runs String.prototype.normalize in NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD modes and reports byte-length deltas for each. Published the long-form how emoji work guide, which walks byte-level through skin-tone modifiers, ZWJ joiner sequences, and flag-letter pairs. Small style fixes for the dark-mode rendering of <kbd> elements in the typing-shortcuts lists.
2026-01-15 — Private beta
Initial private beta opened to fifty invited readers (typographers, font designers, localization engineers, and a small handful of working journalists). The beta shipped with fifty character detail pages, the codepoint-converter and character-inspector tools, and three guides. Feedback during this window drove the decision to add explicit "How to type" sections to each character page, expanded encoding tables, and the no-comments editorial policy described on the about page.
2024-09-10 — Unicode 16.0 published (upstream)
Not a change to this site — predates it — but the upstream release that the entire current build sits on. Unicode 16.0 added 5,185 new characters, bringing the assigned total to 154,998. It introduced seven brand-new scripts: Garay (used to write Wolof in Senegal), Gurung Khema, Kirat Rai, Ol Onal, Sunuwar, Todhri, and Tulu-Tigalari (a historic South Indian script). The release also expanded the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block with the Pyramid Texts repertoire, added new symbols across Mahjong tiles, and refined emoji ZWJ sequences. Full notes: unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/. The next upstream target is Unicode 17.0, expected September 2025, which will trigger the next major rebuild and changelog entry here.
Where to look next
If you want to see what data drives each rebuild, the data sources page lists every UCD file consumed. If you have noticed a value that disagrees with the upstream files, please write in — corrections fold into the next refresh. The editorial decisions behind the project are documented on the about page.