unicode

shows all displayable characters in the unicode range 0 - 65536 (49571 characters). one character per frame.


if you want to know more about the video (how i made it) & the sound go here:

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[saltyman]

I just love how Chinese and Korean take up a huge chunk of the video

[blueyheeler]

0:06 symbols and latin
0:10 more symbols and foreign latin letters
0:14 latin letters used in foreign languages
0:31 phonetic symbols
0:38 Greek and coptic (coptic is only shay fay khay hori janja cheema tee)
0:44 Cyrillic/Russian
0:56 Armenian
1:00 Hebrew
1:02 Arabic
1:14 N’Ko
1:16 Languages used in india
1:27 Thai
1:30 Laos
1:34 Tibetan/Dzongkha
1:41 Georgian
1:43 Korean
1:47 Cherokee
1:50 Canadian Aboriginal
2:31 combining marks for foreign languages
2:32 Latin letters used in ancient languages
2:38 letters for vietnamese
2:41 letters use for ancient welsh
2:42 Greek
2:52 symbols
2:54 digits and letters symbols
2:57 money symbols
2:58 symbols
2:59 letterlike symbols

[that_pac]

Holy shit the entire IPA was in that in about 5-6 seconds!

[mrcydonia]

Yes, there's plenty of room left. The current Unicode setup can hold around 1, 110, 000 characters; so far, we've used up only about 10% of that space.

[TroubleshootingError]

I asume these are all the characters converted into raw data audio.

[TimwiTerby]

I think it would be interesting if you clarified in the description that it doesn’t end at 65536. Beyond that we have Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics, the immense block of Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform, all of the Japanese Emoji, and board-game symbols such as domino bricks and playing cards. I’d love to see all of these animated as well, but since that area is still actively being added to, might be worth waiting :)

[mrcydonia]

And to think we once got by with just the characters available on a typewriter.

[RANDOMSTUFF-ixed]

First off that was really cool and it made me think of that dance the mad hatter does in tim Burton's alice in wonderland. Second I thought Unicode was a secret unicorn language or something like that.

[joergpiringer]

@garlicgherkin but i haven't found a way to display them. actually unicode has way more than 65536 code points. unicode 6.0 defines 109.449 characters. so that would be feature film length...

[tomcomitta]

Does this complete what the early concrete poets imagined? An international writing anyone and everyone can "read." By far the best writing/art that I've read/seen in 2011.

[RogerOnTheRight]

I just love that one bit around 32:40. Brilliant cinematic effect.

[mklemuse]

At 0:06 it sounded like a Popcorn, 5:35 it sounded like pouring and 24:59 It sounded like a spaghetti!

[CamiloSanchez]

Question: If we discovered or were visited by a civilization that belong to a planet, say with roughly the same amount of people, cultures and alphabets, would we still be able to allocate them in the unicode?

[imvickykumar]

Try 0.25X playback speed...
It's like a hip-hop music 😝

[kenny.h]

This ia what teenagers will be listening to in like 50-100 years they'll think this is good music

[WTFRawrtube]

I was listening to my iTunes whilst watching the video and Gorillaz - Phoner to Arizona started playing and for reason it just worked really well with the images of the unicode!

[joergpiringer]

@Darkhenne no it was not boring at all. i wrote a program to generate the images and then chained them together with ffmeg. i did not type all the characters by hand!

[eelamite]

imagine if it included the unicode codes on the side lol that woulda been ma helpful. also i want an updated version of this.. this is like only a third of how many there are today

[WaagooshTheRedFox]

just found out... i have epilspsy!! thanks unicode video. your my hero. lol

[amoliski]

I like the part when a unicode character came onto the screen.