What (who) is Unicode - definition

COMPUTING INDUSTRY STANDARD FOR THE CONSISTENT ENCODING, REPRESENTATION AND HANDLING OF TEXT EXPRESSED IN MOST OF THE WORLD'S WRITING SYSTEMS

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Unicode

1. <character> A 16-bit character set standard, designed and maintained by the non-profit consortium Unicode Inc. Originally Unicode was designed to be universal, unique, and uniform, i.e., the code was to cover all major modern written languages (universal), each character was to have exactly one encoding (unique), and each character was to be represented by a fixed width in bits (uniform). Parallel to the development of Unicode an ISO/IEC standard was being worked on that put a large emphasis on being compatible with existing character codes such as ASCII or ISO Latin 1. To avoid having two competing 16-bit standards, in 1992 the two teams compromised to define a common character code standard, known both as Unicode and BMP. Since the merger the character codes are the same but the two standards are not identical. The ISO/IEC standard covers only coding while Unicode includes additional specifications that help implementation. Unicode is not a glyph encoding. The same character can be displayed as a variety of glyphs, depending not only on the font and style, but also on the adjacent characters. A sequence of characters can be displayed as a single glyph or a character can be displayed as a sequence of glyphs. Which will be the case, is often font dependent. See also Jürgen Bettels and F. Avery Bishop's paper {Unicode: A universal character code (http://research.compaq.com/wrl/DECarchives/DTJ/DTJB02/DTJB02SC.TXT)}. (2002-08-06) 2. <language> A pre-Fortran on the IBM 1130, similar to MATH-MATIC. [Sammet 1969, p.137]. (2004-09-14)

Unicode symbols

UNICODE CHARACTER WHICH IS NOT PART OF A SCRIPT USED TO WRITE A NATURAL LANGUAGE, BUT IS NONETHELESS AVAILABLE FOR USE AS PART OF A TEXT

Unicode Symbols

In computing, a Unicode symbol is a Unicode character which is not part of a script used to write a natural language, but is nonetheless available for use as part of a text.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_symbols

Unicode font

TYPEFACE THAT MAPS GLYPHS TO CODE POINTS DEFINED IN THE UNICODE STANDARD

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A Unicode font is a computer font that maps glyphs to code points defined in the Unicode Standard. The vast majority of modern computer fonts use Unicode mappings, even those fonts which only include glyphs for a single writing system, or even only support the basic Latin alphabet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_font

Wikipedia

Unicode

Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is an information technology standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard, which is maintained by the Unicode Consortium, defines as of the current version (15.0) 149,186 characters covering 161 modern and historic scripts, as well as symbols, 3664 emoji (including in colors), and non-visual control and formatting codes.

Unicode's success at unifying character sets has led to its widespread and predominant use in the internationalization and localization of computer software. The standard has been implemented in many recent technologies, including modern operating systems, XML, JSON, and most modern programming languages, sometimes only in UTF-8 form.

The Unicode character repertoire is synchronized with ISO/IEC 10646, each being code-for-code identical to the other. The Unicode Standard, however, includes more than just the base code. Alongside the character encodings, the Consortium's official publication includes a wide variety of details about the scripts and how to display them: normalization rules, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional text display order for multilingual texts, and so on. The Standard also includes reference data files and visual charts to help developers and designers correctly implement the repertoire.

Unicode can be stored using several different encodings, which translate the character codes into sequences of bytes. The Unicode standard defines three encodings but several others exist, mostly variable-length encodings. The most common encodings are the ASCII-compatible UTF-8, the ASCII-incompatible UTF-16 (compatible with the obsolete UCS-2), and the Chinese Unicode encoding standard GB18030 which is not an official Unicode standard but is used in China and implements Unicode fully.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode

Pronunciation examples for Unicode

1. to Unicode?

Birthing an Emoji _ Florie Hutchinson _ Talks at Google

2. The Unicode Consortium does.

Birthing an Emoji _ Florie Hutchinson _ Talks at Google

3. Unicode technical committee met.

From Talking Leaves to Pixels - Cherokee, a Case Study _ Talks at Google

4. And it's just Unicode.

Dyalog Modern Programming Language _ Morten Kromberg _ Talks at Google

5. to be in Unicode phase.

The ADLaM Alphabet for Our People _ Abdoulaye + More _ Talks at Google

Examples of use of Unicode

1. "We are not hackers, we are developers," Omar said, adding that his project also involves allowing the iPhone to use Unicode and Windows own language support for Arabic script.