Unicode
nounUS /ˈjunɪˌkoʊd/ · UK /ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd/
Etymology Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Broadly, Informal Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.
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- ASCII, EBCDIC, UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16