Unicode

Also known as The Unicode Standard, Uni-code, Unicode Standard

Unicode (also known as The Unicode Standard and TUS) is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 17.0 defines 159,801 characters and 172 scripts used in various ordinary, literary, academic and technical contexts.

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Unicode is a standardized system that assigns unique numerical codes to characters used in all the world's writing systems, allowing computers to store and display text from any language or script. As of its latest version, it encompasses over 159,000 characters representing 172 different scripts, making it possible for digital devices to handle text reliably across languages and cultures.

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Key facts

Character encoding.name: Unicode
Character encoding.image: New Unicode logo.svg
Character encoding.caption: Logo of the Unicode Consortium
Character encoding.standard: Unicode Standard
Character encoding.lang: 168 scripts (list)
Character encoding.encodings: (uncommon) (obsolete)
Character encoding.prev: ISO/IEC 8859, among others

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Wikidata facts

Official website: unicode.org

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Commons category: Unicode
Stack Exchange tag: askubuntu.com/tags/unicode
Commons gallery: Unicode
Unicode range: U+0000-10FFFF
ACM Classification Code (2012): 10011594
software version identifier: 17.0.0
issue tracker URL: unicode-org.atlassian.net
publication date: 1996-07-00
official blog URL: blog.unicode.org
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Contents

Origin and development
{{anchor|Unicode 88}}History
Unicode Consortium
Scripts covered
Proposals for adding scripts
Versions
Architecture and terminology
Codespace and code points
Code planes and blocks
General Category property
Abstract characters
Ready-made versus composite characters
Ligatures
Standardized subsets
{{anchor|UTF|UCS}}Mapping and encodings
Adoption
Operating systems
Input methods
Email
Web
Fonts
Newlines
Issues
Character unification
Han unification
Italic or cursive characters in Cyrillic
Localised case pairs
Diacritics on lowercase {{serif|I}}
Security
Mapping to legacy character sets
Indic scripts
Combining characters
Anomalies
See also
Notes
References
Further reading
External links

Unicode has largely supplanted the previous environment of myriad incompatible character sets used within different locales and on different computer architectures. The entire repertoire of these sets, plus many additional characters, were merged into the single Unicode set. Unicode is used to encode the vast majority of text on the Internet, including most web pages, and relevant Unicode support has become a common consideration in contemporary software development. Unicode is ultimately capable of encoding more than 1.1 million characters.