![]() ![]() Each character gets a name and a code point, for example LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A is 0041 and TIBETAN SYLLABLE OM is 0F00. It defines a large (and steadily growing) number of characters – just over 100,000 last time I checked. The basics of Unicode are actually pretty simple. Tim Bray, in his article “On the Goodness of Unicode”, explains Unicode in simple terms: Prior to Unicode, you would probably have needed to select a different code page to see each script, if the script even had a code page and a font that supported it, and you wouldn’t be able to view multiple languages / scripts within the same file at all. ![]() The practical benefit of this aim is that any user in any location can view Chinese scripts, English alphanumeric characters, or Russian and Arabic text – all within the same file and without having to manually futz with the encoding (code page) for each specific text. Unicode is an encoding developed many years ago by some intelligent developers with the goal of mapping most of the world’s written characters to a single encoding set. ![]()
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