For Unicode we have terms and definitions in 6 topics. The topics are Java, Publishing, Technology, Typography, Unicode and XML.

Unicode (Java)

A 16-bit character set defined by ISO 10646. See also ASCII. All source code in the Java programming environment is written in Unicode.

Unicode (Publishing)

A character encoding system defined by the Unicode Consortium and used by computer systems.

Unicode (Technology)

A 16-bit character encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium between 1988 and 1991. By using two bytes to represent each character, Unicode enables almost all of the written languages of the world to be represented using a single character set. (By contrast, 8-bit ASCII is not capable of representing all of the combinations of letters and diacritical marks that are used just with the Roman alphabet.) Approximately 39,000 of the 65,536 possible Unicode character codes have been assigned to date, 21,000 of them being used for Chinese ideographs. The remaining combinations are open for expansion. Compare ASCII.

Unicode (Typography)

A character encoding system defined by the Unicode Consortium and used by computer systems.

Unicode (Unicode)

The universal character encoding, maintained by the Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/). This encoding standard provides the basis for processing, storage and interchange of text data in any language in all modern software and information technology protocols.

Unicode (XML)

A standard defined by the Unicode Consortium that uses a 16-bit "code page" which maps digits to characters in languages around the world. Because 16 bits covers 32,768 codes, Unicode is large enough to include all the world's languages, with the exception of ideographic languages that have a different character for every concept, like Chinese. For more info, see http://www.unicode.org/.

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