Unicode

Since the ASCII code can only encode the Latin alphabets so some other codes are required to encode alphabets of other language or some special symbols. Unicode is a universal code used for character encoding of any written language of the world. To keep character coding simple and efficient the Unicode standard assigns each characters a unique numeric value and name independent of platform. It is international standard that use 16 bit to represent character. Hence 65536 different characters can be represented using Unicode. This is sufficient to represent any character of any language. This major advantage of Unicode over other texts code symbol is its compatibility with ASCII code.

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