Unicode. It defines a supposedly universal system of codes for writing 
all the languages of the world. Thanks to Unicode, non-ASCII characters 
are no longer the broken mess that they once were; you can write 
non-ASCII characters and have a reasonable chance of it actually working 
in more than one application.

What it perhaps less known is that Unicode also has codepoints for 
really, *really* obscure stuff - alphabets that haven't been written for 
thousands of years, such as Linear-B, Cuneiform, etc. This stuff is 
presumably highly useful to scholars of ancient languages - and utterly 
useless to the rest of human civilisation.

But what I didn't know was this:

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F600.pdf

For real. This is an actual thing.

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