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unicode - unicode characters

The Unicode function returns all types of character for multiple languages (also UTF-8).

Unicode contains special languages and graphical characters not commonly used in standard Latin texts.

Unicode characters are perfect to test input fields in your application and verify how texts are stored in the database. If you want to upset your DBA use the pattern below to generate random characters from the "Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics" unicode range :)

unicode(60,24) - will generate 60 characters from range 24 (Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics)

If you want to copy & paste these characters to another program, make sure the target application is UTF-8 encoded.

Unicode / UTF-8 ranges & references:

Usage(s)

unicode ()	Returns a printable unicode character from any of the predefined ranges.
unicode ( $length )	Returns a string of Unicode characters with a length of $length.
unicode ( $length , $rangeMin, $rangeMax )	Returns a string of unicode character with length $length in the unicode range $rangeMin to $rangeMax
unicode ( $length , $range )	Returns a string of unicode character with length $length in the unicode range $range

Parameter(s)

$length

The length of the string to generate

$rangeMin

The minimum (decimal) range for the unicode character (Unicode Table)

$rangeMax

The maximum (decimal) range for the unicode character (Unicode Table)

$range

The predefined range that the generator engine uses to pick characters from.

These are the supported pre-defined ranges:

#	Range
0	Latin
1	Latin-1 Supplement
2	Latin-Extended A
3	Latin-Extended B
4	IPA Extentions
5	Greek and Coptic
6	Cyrillic
7	Cyrillic Supplementary
8	Armenian
9	Hebrew
10	Arabic
11	Syriac
12	Thaana
13	Devanagari
14	Bengali

#	Range
15	Gurmukhi
16	Gujarati
17	Oriya
18	Tamil
19	Malayalam
20	Thai
21	Georgian
22	Hangul Jamo
23	Ethiopic
24	Cherokee
25	Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
26	Khmer
27	Khmer Symbols
28	Mongolian
29	Phonetic Extensions

#	Range
30	Latin Extended Additional
31	Currency Symbols
32	Letterlike Symbols
33	Number Forms
34	Arrows
35	Mathematical Operators
36	Enclosed Alphanumerics
37	Box Drawing
38	Geometric Shapes
39	Miscellaneous Symbols
40	Supplemental Arrows-B
41	Kangxi Radicals
42	CJK Symbols and Punctuation
43	Hiragana
44	Katakana

#	Range
45	Bopomofo
46	Hangul Compatibility Jamo
47	Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
48	CJK Compatibility
49	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A
50	CJK Unified Ideographs
51	Yi Syllables
52	Yi Radicals
53	Hangul Syllables
54	CJK Compatibility Ideographs
55	Arabic Presentation Forms-A
56	CJK Compatibility Forms
57	Arabic Presentation Forms-B
58	Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols
59	CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B

Example(s)

Basic unicode examples

unicode(50) - Will generate 50 unicode chars from all of the Unicode ranges.

Generating language specific characters

unicode(50,27) - will generate 50 printable characters from the 'Khmer Symbols' range.

Arrows

unicode(50,34) - Use this pattern if you like arrows ;)

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