Unicode

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Unicode

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Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- +‎ code.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjunɪˌkoʊd/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd/

• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -əʊd

Unicode

1. (international standards, computing) A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.

   This character isn't in Unicode.

   • 2022 September, “Version 15.0 – Core Specification”, in Unicode‎^[1], page 535:

     The Thaana script is written from right to left. Conformant implementations of Thaana script must use the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see Unicode Standard Annex #9, “Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm”).

2. (computing) The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.

   convert to Unicode

Unicode (uncountable)

1. (computing, by extension, informal) Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.

   Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.

• ASCII
• EBCDIC
• UTF-7
• UTF-8
• UTF-16
• Appendix:Unicode
• Appendix:Unicode/Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs

• Unicode website

• doucine

Unicode m

1. (computing) Unicode (series of computer encoding standards)