Unicode Last modified: Wednesday, December 11, 2002
A standard for representing characters as integers. Unlike ASCII, which uses 7 bits for each character, Unicode uses 16 bits, which means that it can represent more than 65,000 unique characters. This is a bit of overkill for English and Western-European languages, but it is necessary for some other languages, such as Greek, Chinese and Japanese. Many analysts believe that as the software industry becomes increasingly global, Unicode will eventually supplant ASCII as the standard character coding format.
•E-mail this definition to a colleague• For internet.com pages about Unicode . Also check out the following links! History of Unicode This document describes the history of the Unicode standard, with mentions of the standards organizations involved with its design. ISO Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set home page Official JTC1/SC2/WG2 (UCS) site. Unicode home page Contains information about the Unicode standard as well as International conferences, and online resources.	Data Formats ASCII character character set DBCS NTFS Give Us Your Feedback Shopping Unicode Products Compare Products,Prices and Stores Shop by Category: Books 5 Model Matches Printer Accessories 1 Model Matches Software 16 Store Offers