Unicode

ˈjuː.nɪˌkəʊd

Definition

Definition of Unicode - Reverso English Dictionary

Noun

technology

TECH.

computing standard for consistent encoding of text

TECH.

Unicode enables the representation of text from multiple languages.
Developers rely on Unicode for text consistency.
Unicode is essential for global software applications.

character set

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Origin of Unicode

English, uni- (one) + code (system of symbols)

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rune

technology

Unicode code point in Go programming language

astral plane

technology

range of Unicode code points beyond U+FFFF

grapheme

Unicode

sequence of code points as a single unit

UTF

acr.

acr: Unicode Transformation Format

way to encode text for computers

UTF-32

abbr.

abr: Unicode Transformation Format-32

32-bit way to encode every Unicode character

UTF-8

abbr.

abr: Unicode Transformation Format-8

character encoding that supports many languages and symbols

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Japanese:ユニコード, ...
Arabic:يونيكود, ...
Hebrew:יוּנִיקוֹד, ...
Russian:Юникод, ...
Ukrainian:Юнікод, ...
Hindi:यूनिकोड, ...
Bengali:ইউনিকোড, ...
Catalan:Unicode, ...
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Hungarian:Unicode, ...
Khmer:យូនីកូដ, ...
Korean:유니코드, ...
Persian:یونیکد, ...
Polish:Unicode, ...
Portuguese (BR):Unicode, ...
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Swedish:Unicode, ...
Thai:ยูนิโค้ด, ...
Turkish:Unicode, ...
Vietnamese:Unicode, ...

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Definition of Unicode - Reverso English Dictionary

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Origin of Unicode

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