Unicode | Wikipedia audio article
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00:04:38 1 Origin and development
00:07:41 1.1 History
00:12:23 1.2 Architecture and terminology
00:13:33 1.2.1 Code point planes and blocks
00:14:45 1.2.2 General Category property
00:20:45 1.2.3 Abstract characters
00:23:02 1.3 Unicode Consortium
00:24:14 1.4 Versions
00:26:44 1.5 Scripts covered
00:29:30 2 Mapping and encodings
00:29:56 2.1 Unicode Transformation Format and Universal Coded Character Set
00:37:23 2.2 Ready-made versus composite characters
00:41:16 2.3 Ligatures
00:43:18 2.4 Standardized subsets
00:44:59 2.5 Code point lookup
00:45:46 3 Adoption
00:45:55 3.1 Operating systems
00:48:09 3.2 Input methods
00:49:09 3.3 Email
00:50:41 3.4 Web
00:52:54 3.5 Fonts
00:54:36 3.6 Newlines
00:56:30 4 Issues
00:56:40 4.1 Philosophical and completeness criticisms
01:00:04 4.2 Mapping to legacy character sets
01:02:57 4.3 Indic scripts
01:05:47 4.4 Combining characters
01:07:11 4.5 Anomalies
01:09:17 5 See also
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Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium, and as of March 2019 the most recent version, Unicode 12.0, contains a repertoire of 137,993 characters covering 150 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets and emoji. The character repertoire of the Unicode Standard is synchronized with ISO/IEC 10646, and both are code-for-code identical.
The Unicode Standard consists of a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding method and set of standard character encodings, a set of reference data files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts).Unicode's success at unifying character sets has led to its widespread and predominant use in the internationalization and localization of computer software. The standard has been implemented in many recent technologies, including modern operating systems, XML, Java (and other programming languages), and the .NET Framework.
Unicode can be implemented by different character encodings. The Unicode standard defines UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32, and several other encodings are in use. The most commonly used encodings are UTF-8, UTF-16, and UCS-2, a precursor of UTF-16.
UTF-8, the dominant encoding on the World Wide Web (used in over 92% of websites), uses one byte for the first 128 code points, and up to 4 bytes for other characters. The first 128 Unicode code points are the ASCII characters, which means that any ASCII text is also a UTF-8 text.
UCS-2 uses two bytes (16 bits) for each character but can only encode the first 65,536 code points, the so-called Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). With 1,114,112 code points on 17 planes being possible, and with over 137,000 code points defined so far, UCS-2 is only able to represent less than half of all encoded Unicode characters. Therefore, UCS-2 is outdated, though still widely used in software. UTF-16 extends UCS-2, by using the same 16-bit encoding as UCS-2 for the Basic Multilingual Plane, and a 4-byte encoding for the other planes. As long as it contains no code points in the reserved range U+D800–U+DFFF, a UCS-2 text is a valid UTF-16 text.
UTF-32 (also referred to as UCS-4) uses four bytes for each character. Like UCS-2, the number of bytes per character is fixed, facilitating character indexing; but unlike UCS-2, UTF-32 is able to encode all Unicode code points. However, because each character uses four bytes, UTF-32 takes significantly more space than other encodings, a ...