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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A character encoding standard for computer storage and transmission of the letters, characters, and symbols of most languages and writing systems.

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  • proper noun computing A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
  • proper noun computing The Unicode standards together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.

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Examples

  • The first one is not in Unicode, but the second one is.

    Proto-unintentional-emoticons « Motivated Grammar 2008

  • Unicode is helping to fix that, but Microsoft had to come around to a standard it didn't control.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • Well, because the ANSI version of the function just converts its strings to Unicode and the calls the Unicode version of the function.

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • To extend this limit to 32,767 widecharacters, call the Unicode version of the function and prepend

    博客园-首页原创精华区 yonken 2010

  • If he knew to do that, which most people don't. my company, we decided to do everything internally in UCS-2 (two byte) Unicode, which is what

    Public marks 2010

  • · Combined Unicode / Hex mode (call Unicode mode twice) · More modern RegEx search library

    Softpedia - Windows - All 2009

  • It calls a Unicode-only API directly without any kind of conversions.

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • One is for the user to adapt even in pen-based computing, the standard character set their handwriting style, so that their characters are a used is ASCII as opposed to Unicode, which is the standar - closer match to the recognizer's pre-stored models; the dized character set that contains all characters of every other way is to adapt the recognizer's pre-stored models; to language throughout the world. be a closer match with the user's character forms

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Third, when I download results from quizzes, all of the question marks, percent symbols, and single and double quotes in students' answers have been replaced by 'Unicode' codes e.g. ''' replaces every '?'

    Problems with Blackboard Vista Rosie Redfield 2008

  • Third, when I download results from quizzes, all of the question marks, percent symbols, and single and double quotes in students' answers have been replaced by 'Unicode' codes e.g. ''' replaces every '?'

    Archive 2008-05-01 Rosie Redfield 2008

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