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Usage

• The box is aimed at Unicode-related pages. Guidelines do recommended not to create a box with numerous entries, like with names of 165 Unicode-blocks.

Meaning

• A block in Unicode is single continuous group of codepoints, e.g. Miscellaneous Symbols Unicode block with range U+2600–26FF. Unicode has defined and named blocks. It is well allowed to define overlapping or sub-blocks, like Unicode Chess Symbols (U+2654-265F) withing the Miscellaneous Symbols block. A block can include undefined codepoints.
• A script is related to speech (like the alphabet), symbols are related to their meaning (like chess-symbols). Symbols also include controls and Unicode-specials like Byte order mark(BOM). All defined Unicode characters are either in a script or a symbol.
• Charts are examples of glyphs, i.e. a rendered character (the "A" you read)
• Due to legacy character sets like ASCII, and due to intended usage of Unicode, multiple issues arise from pairs of characters with an overlapping meaning etc.
• Special characters have a Unicode-defined behavior.
• Miscellaneous lists are lists of characters that are not in one block. Cultural symbols like religious crosses are in different blocks.