2 posts tagged with "Unicode"

After last year's update, another update is planned for this summer. We take this as an opportunity to take a close look at the unicode standard. The so-called Unicode-consortium as a non-profit association is responsible for ensuring that the unicode standard is continually further developed and expanded.

Unicode is a character encoding system that assigns each character a unique number independent of the system, program and language. The problem with earlier coding systems was that they supported too few characters and were not compatible among each other.