Editing Character encoding (section)

===Unicode code points===
In Unicode, a character can be referred to as 'U+' followed by its codepoint value in hexadecimal. The range of valid code points (the codespace) for the Unicode standard is U+0000 to U+10FFFF, inclusive, divided in 17 [[Plane (Unicode)|planes]], identified by the numbers 0 to 16. Characters in the range U+0000 to U+FFFF are in plane 0, called the [[Plane (Unicode)#Basic Multilingual Plane|Basic Multilingual Plane]] (BMP). This plane contains the most commonly-used characters. Characters in the range U+10000 to U+10FFFF in the other planes are called [[supplementary characters]].

The following table shows examples of code point values:
{| class="wikitable MsoNormalTable"
! Character
! Unicode code point
! Glyph
|-
| Latin A
| U+0041
| Α
|-
| Latin sharp S
| U+00DF
| ß
|-
| Han for East
| U+6771
| 東
|-
| Ampersand
| U+0026
| &
|-
| Inverted exclamation mark
| U+00A1
| ¡
|-
| Section sign
| U+00A7
| §
|}