Unicode
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- A 16-bit character set designed to make it easier to exchange and display information that makes use of a wide range of different languages and symbols.
David J. Barnes - Cite This Source - This Definition - A standard defined by the Unicode Consortium that uses a 16-bit code page that maps digits to characters in languages around the world. Because 16 bits covers 32,768 codes, Unicode is large enough to include all the world's languages, with the exception of ideographic languages that have a different character for every concept, such as Chinese. For more information, see
http://www.unicode.org/. - A 16-bit character set defined by ISO 10646. See also ASCII. All source code in the Java programming environment is written in Unicode.
Sun Microsystems - Cite This Source - This Definition - ASCII, character set encoding, newline, null, null character, octal character constant
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