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Unicode

Unicode (also known as The Unicode Standard and TUS) is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 17.

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Alias(es)
Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) · ISO/IEC 10646
Encoding formats
UTF-8 · UTF-16 · GB18030 · UTF-32 · BOCU
Languages
172 scripts (list)
Preceded by
ISO/IEC 8859, among others
Standard
Unicode Standard

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Architecture and terminology

Adoption

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Unicode

Nodes253
Edges252
Triples397
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007905
Components1

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Unicode

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related to Standardized subsets · 26
Unicode → Cyrillic, DIN, Europe, European, European Union, German, Greek, Iceland, ISO, Latin, Liechtenstein, MES-1, MES-2, MES-3A, MES-3B, Microsoft Windows, Multilingual European Subsets, Norway, Other, Several
related to Anomalies · 21
Unicode → A015ꀕYI SYLLABLE WU, At, BRACKET, BRAKCET, But, COMBINING GRAPHEME JOINER, Depending, Does, FE18, For, In, June, PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL, RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRAKCET, SCRIPT CAPITAL, Spelling, The, The Unicode Standard, This, Unicode's
related to Operating systems · 21
Unicode → Although, ASCII, BMP, Early, HTML, KDE, Microsoft Layer, NET, Partial, Plan, The, The Java, UCS-2, Unix-like, UTF-16, UTF-8, Vista, Windows, Windows NT, World Wide Web
related to Indic scripts · 19
Unicode → Arabic, China, Devanagari, Encoding, Even, Indic, ISCII, ISO, ISO/IEC JTC, SC, Some, Standardization Administration, Tamil, Thai, Thai Industrial Standard, The, This, Tibetan, Unicode Indic
related to Ligatures · 19
Unicode → AAT, ACE, Adobe, Apple, Arabic, Arabic Calligraphic Engine, DecoType, Devanāgarī, Generally, Graphite, Instructions, Many, Microsoft, OpenType, Real, SIL International, Thai, The, The Unicode Standard
related to Proposals for adding scripts · 17
Unicode → ConScript Unicode Registry, For, Jurchen, Ken Whistler, Khitan, Klingon, Michael Everson, Numidian, Rick McGowan, Roadmap, Rongorongo, Some, Tengwar, The Unicode Roadmap Committee, Umamaheswaran, Unicode Consortium, Unicode Roadmap
related to Abstract characters · 16
Unicode → A015ꀕYI SYLLABLE WU, All, FE18, For, However, In, Latin, Lithuanian, Name Stability, PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL, RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRACKET, RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRAKCET, The, The Unicode Standard, This, YI SYLLABLE ITERATION MARK
related to Adoption · 15
Unicode → All, Although, As, ASCII, File Transfer Protocol, FTP, IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force, It, MUST, Over, RFC, UTF-16, UTF-8, World Wide Web
related to history · 15
Unicode → Apple, August, Becker, Dave Opstad, He, In, Joe Becker, Lee Collins, Mark Davis, Peter Fenwick, The, With, XCCS, Xerox, Xerox's Character Code Standard
related to Precomposed vis-à-vis composite characters · 15
Unicode → An, COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT, For, Hangul, Hangul Jamo, However, Korean, Multiple, SMALL LETTER, The, The Unicode Standard, These, This, Thus, WITH ACUTE

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Important terminology

characters character code encoding standard used text points use scripts utf-8 encodings also set point one utf-16 font may repertoire

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
UnicodeAlias(es)Universal Coded Character Set (UCS)1.00infobox
UnicodeAlias(es)ISO/IEC 106461.00infobox
UnicodeEncoding formatsUTF-81.00infobox
UnicodeEncoding formatsUTF-161.00infobox
UnicodeEncoding formatsGB180301.00infobox
UnicodeEncoding formatsUTF-321.00infobox
UnicodeEncoding formatsBOCU1.00infobox
UnicodeEncoding formatsSCSU1.00infobox
UnicodeEncoding formatsUTF-EBCDIC1.00infobox
UnicodeEncoding formatsUTF-71.00infobox
UnicodeEncoding formatsUTF-11.00infobox
UnicodeLanguages172 scripts (list)1.00infobox
UnicodePreceded byISO/IEC 8859, among others1.00infobox
UnicodeStandardUnicode Standard1.00infobox
Unicodeis aencoding independent of font variations0.90text

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