Unicode Standard section 3.4: > Unless specified otherwise for clarity, in the text of the Unicode Standard the term character alone designates an encoded char

Unicode Standard section 3.4: > Unless specified otherwise for clarity, in the text of the Unicode Standard the term character alone designates an encoded character. Reading is free. I even gave you the section number. > A single abstract character may also be represented by a sequence of code points An "abstract character" is not the same thing as a character. The whole point of my comment was that the general word "character" is a general class of definitions but means nothing by itself. Much like the word "number" - you will notice that mathematicians define many kinds of numbers, but never the word itself. > Human language and writing are the defining inventions of the known universe. Unicode just happens to be one way of representing them. Referring to them as "silly and made up" in comparison to Unicode is nothing short of extreme mental illness. All words are made up. I'm sorry you had to find out this way.