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Unicode

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Unicode

Unicode is a character set which was released because of the need to standardise character sets internationally.

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Unicode

  • Unicode aims to represent every possible character in the world.
  • The most common form of Unicode is UTF-8 and uses between eight and 32 bit binary codes to represent each character.
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Compatability with ASCII

  • The first 256 characters in Unicode are identical to extended ASCII, which makes it backwards compatible with documents encoded using older character sets.
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Types of characters

  • Unicode represents characters from all major alphabets of the world.
  • Unicode is also used to represent emojis!

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