Unicode

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

Unicode

(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.
(computing) The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.
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series of computer encoding standards

Albanian: Unicode
Amharic: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod)
Arabic: يُونِيكُود‎ m (yūnīkūd)
Armenian: Յունիկոդ (Yunikod)
Belarusian: Юніко́д m (Junikód)
Bengali: ইউনিকোড (bn) (iunikoḍ)
Blin: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod)
Bulgarian: Унико́д m (Unikód)
Catalan: Unicode m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 統一碼, 统一码 (tung² jat¹ maa⁵), 萬國碼, 万国码 (maan⁶ gwok³ maa⁵), 單一碼, 单一码 (daan¹ jat¹ maa⁵)

Mandarin: 統一碼 (zh), 统一码 (zh) (tǒngyīmǎ), 萬國碼 (zh), 万国码 (zh) (wànguómǎ), 單一碼 (zh), 单一码 (zh) (dānyīmǎ)
Czech: Unicode
Danish: Unicode
Dutch: Unicode (nl)
Esperanto: Unikodo
Finnish: Unicode (fi)
French: Unicode (fr) m
Georgian: უნიკოდი (uniḳodi)
German: Unicode (de) m
Greek: Unicode (el) n (Unicode)
Hebrew: יוניקוד‎ (he) (yunikod)
Hindi: यूनिकोड (yūnikoḍ)
Hungarian: Unicode
Igbo: Yunikod
Indonesian: Unicode
Interlingua: Unicode
Italian: Unicode (it) m
Japanese: ユニコード (yunikōdo)
Kannada: ಯುನಿಕೋಡ್ (yunikōḍ)
Khün: ᨿᩪᨶᩥᨤ᩠ᨯᩰᨯ᩼

Unicode (uncountable)

(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.
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