Unicode
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English
editEtymology
editPublished as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editUnicode
- (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.
- convert to Unicode
Translations
editseries of computer encoding standards
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Noun
editUnicode (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.
- Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.
See also
edit- ASCII
- EBCDIC
- UTF-7
- UTF-8
- UTF-16
- Appendix:Unicode
- Appendix:Unicode/Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Further reading
editAnagrams
editPortuguese
editProper noun
editUnicode m
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