Unicode

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Etymology

Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- +‎ code.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjunɪˌkoʊd/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd/

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊd

Proper noun

Unicode

1. (international standards, computing) A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.

   This character isn't in Unicode.

   • 2022 September, “Version 15.0 – Core Specification”, in Unicode‎, page 535:

     The Thaana script is written from right to left. Conformant implementations of Thaana script must use the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see Unicode Standard Annex #9, “Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm”).

2. (computing) The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.

   convert to Unicode

Derived terms

• Unicode font

Translations

series of computer encoding standards

Albanian: Unicode Amharic: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod) Arabic: يُونِيكُود (ar) m (yūnīkūd) Armenian: Յունիկոդ (Yunikod) Belarusian: Юніко́д m (Junikód) Bengali: ইউনিকোড (bn) (iunikōḍ) Blin: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod) Bulgarian: Унико́д m (Unikód) Catalan: Unicode m Chinese: Cantonese: 統一碼 / 统一码 (tung2 jat1 maa5), 萬國碼 / 万国码 (maan6 gwok3 maa5), 單一碼 / 单一码 (daan1 jat1 maa5) Mandarin: 統一碼 / 统一码 (zh) (tǒngyīmǎ), 萬國碼 / 万国码 (zh) (wànguómǎ), 單一碼 / 单一码 (zh) (dānyīmǎ) Czech: Unicode Danish: Unicode Dutch: Unicode (nl) Esperanto: Unikodo Finnish: Unicode (fi) French: Unicode (fr) m Georgian: უნიკოდი (uniḳodi) German: Unicode (de) m Greek: Unicode (el) n Hebrew: יוניקוד (he) (yunikod) Hindi: यूनिकोड (yūnikoḍ) Hungarian: Unicode (hu) Igbo: Yunikod Indonesian: Unicode Interlingua: Unicode Italian: Unicode (it) m Japanese: ユニコード (ja) (yunikōdo) Kannada: ಯುನಿಕೋಡ್ (yunikōḍ) Khün: ᨿᩪᨶᩥᨤ᩠ᨯᩰᨯ᩼ Korean: 유니코드 (ko) (yunikodeu) Latvian: Unikods m Lithuanian: Unikodas m Maori: waehereao Marathi: युनिकोड (yunikoḍ) Mongolian: Юникод (Junikod) Norwegian: Unicode Persian: یونیکد (yuni-kod), یونی‌کد (yuni-kod) Polish: Unicode (pl) Portuguese: Unicode (pt) m Romanian: Unicode (ro) m Russian: Юнико́д (ru) m (Junikód), Унико́д m (Unikód) Sebat Bet Gurage: ዩኒኮድ Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Уникод m Roman: Unikod m Sindhi: يونيڪوڊ Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: Unicode Spanish: Unicode (es) m Swedish: Unicode Tagalog: Yunikowd Tamil: யூனிக்கோடு (yūṉikkōṭu) Telugu: విశ్వ సంకేత మాల (te) (viśva saṅkēta māla), యూనీకోడ్ (yūnīkōḍ) Thai: ยูนิโคด (yooníkôht) Tigrinya: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod) Turkish: Evrensel Kod, Unicode Ukrainian: Юніко́д m (Junikód) Uyghur: يۇنىكود (yunikod) Vietnamese: Unicode (vi) Welsh: Unicode (cy) Xamtanga: ዩኒኮድ

Noun

Unicode (uncountable)

1. (computing, by extension, 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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See also

• ASCII
• EBCDIC
• UTF-7
• UTF-8
• UTF-16
• Appendix:Unicode
• Appendix:Unicode/Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs

Further reading

• Unicode website

Anagrams

• doucine

Portuguese

Proper noun

Unicode m

1. (computing) Unicode (series of computer encoding standards)