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What does Unicode mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Unicode? Here's what it means.

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  1. (computing) A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
  2. (computing) The Unicode standards together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.
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However, with the introduction of Unicode, Romanization is now becoming less necessary.
This means that a Unicode document can contain any number of characters from any number of languages, without having to worry about clashes between them.
Oriya's one of the more obscure of the Indic scripts in Unicode.
However, for various reasons, Unicode sometimes provides a separate code point for a digraph, encoded as a single character.
Gentium is a Unicode typeface that contains Roman, Greek and Cyrillic characters, including many characters seldom seen in even the most ambitious typefaces.
As there are two bytes for every letter, we assume we are dealing with a multibyte representation of text, most likely a Unicode encoding.

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