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Dictionary of Computers - Unicode
Unicode
16-bit character encoding system, intended to cover all characters in all languages (including Chinese and similar languages) and to be backwards compatible with ASCII.
Unlike ASCII, which is 8-bit and can therefore represent only 256 characters – insufficient for many diacritics outside the English language – Unicode can represent 65,536 characters, big enough to handle almost all written languages, including Japanese, Tibetan, and the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). It was created in the 1980s by Apple and Xerox in the USA.
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