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What is Unicode?

Jan 7th, 2006 12:37
Knud van Eeden,

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What is Unicode?

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The aim and the idea is to collect the characters of ideally all the
languages of the world and assign each of this characters a unique
number (in order to process text using this characters further in e.g.
computer software).

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A standardized way of assigning this characters to unique numbers is
the Unicode table, which assigns 65536 characters to a unique number
between 1 and 65536
(because of they chose to use totally 2 bytes per character,
 thus 2^16 - 1 or 65536 different
 possibilities)

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To recognize you are dealing with a Unicode number,

you write

    U+<your unique hexadecimal unicode number for that character>

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Note

This is similar to using

 0x...

to recognize you are dealing with a hexadecimal
number in e.g. C++

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Internet: see also:

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Unicode: Can you give an overview of links?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/38864/fid/1852

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