What’s a Unicode® font?

Unicode characters are used to display characters in the Universal Unicode Character Set (UCS), which includes over 1 million code points. Unicode fonts may only provide graphic data for a subset of characters, and the relationship between a character and UCS is handled by software. A Unicode font includes the UCS and information on how […]

What’s a Unicode Editor?

A Unicode text editor can create, edit, and display text in various alphabets, including non-Latin ones. It stores information in an international standard called Unicode. The Unicode Consortium coordinates the development of the standard, which can accommodate over a million distinct characters. A Unicode text editor allows multiple languages to be included in the same […]

What is Unicode?

Unicodes are uniform codes used for translation between languages, represented by numbers. They allow for consistent representation of special characters, but may not be readable by all systems. The Unicode Consortium works to implement Unicode and improve multilingual processing. Membership is open to those willing to pay the fee. The prefix “uni” is used to […]

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