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Unicode
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Unicode  (yn-kd)
A computer standard for encoding characters. Each character is represented by sixteen bits. Whereas ASCII, being an 8-bit encoding scheme, can only represent 256 characters, Unicode has 65,536 combinations, enabling it to encode the letters of all written languages as well as thousands of characters in languages such as Japanese and Chinese.


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The CD-ROM contains files for the Unicode character database and Unicode technical reports.
In addition, the Unicode Character Database (UCD) added new properties and aliases, and made changes to some property values that may impact some implementations.
 
 
 
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