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I don't think "Unicode" is an acronym ("Unique Numeric Indicators for the Communication Of Display Entities"?)

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Revision as of 16:22, 3 August 2011 (view source) rosettacode>Kernigh (Stash a link to Wiktionary's Appendix:Unicode.) ← Older edit		Revision as of 18:14, 3 August 2011 (view source) rosettacode>Mwn3d m (I don't think "Unicode" is an acronym ("Unique Numeric Indicators for the Communication Of Display Entities"?)) Newer edit →
Line 1: {{stub}} [[Category:Encyclopedia]]'''~~UNICODE~~Unicode''' is a mapping from characters in a ''very'' large set of languages to code points, together with a set of descriptive metadata about those code points (so that you can know whether they are alphabetic, numeric, symbolic, white-space, etc.) A number of different mechanisms are used for mapping this to a sequence of bytes. The single most important one (because it embeds [[ASCII]] and so is easy to deploy on existing systems) is [[UTF-8]].