The feature includes a shortcut to a table with all Unicode/ASCII characters. Through this, the user should be able to search for a character, copy it and get information about a selected character.

Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web, Mark Davis, Google's senior international software architect, said in a blog post.

ASCII table. Code: Character: Code: Character: Code: ... Unicode uses a 2-byte system for each character, which means that more than 65,000 characters can be represented.