Unicode is a standard system for representing characters from all writing systems in a consistent and universal manner. It is an international character encoding standard that assigns a unique number, known as a code point, to each character, regardless of platform, language, or program. This includes characters from diverse scripts such as Latin, Greek, Chinese, Arabic, and many others.
Unicode’s primary goal is to provide a way to digitally represent and exchange text across different platforms and systems without loss or corruption of information. It allows for the accurate representation and processing of text in any language, facilitating global communication and compatibility between computer systems.
With Unicode, each character is represented by a fixed-width 16-bit or 32-bit code unit, ensuring a large and expandable repertoire of characters. This ensures that texts in various languages can be displayed and processed without the need for numerous encoding standards specific to each writing system.
Unicode also supports special characters, punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, emoji, and various scripts. It encompasses almost all characters used across the world's languages, historic scripts, and symbols used in computing and communication systems.
Unicode is fundamental for modern text processing, enabling seamless communication, text display, and data exchange across different devices, platforms, and applications. It has become the de facto standard for character encoding used globally, promoting linguistic diversity and intercultural communication in the digital age.
