Unicode

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character encoding standard international standard

Unicode is a universal character encoding standard that assigns unique code points to virtually all written scripts, symbols, and emojis used in modern computing.

Aliases (5)

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	character encoding standard → international standard →
abbreviation	Unicode →
alignedWith	ISO/IEC 10646 →
basicMultilingualPlaneRange	U+0000 to U+FFFF →
codeSpaceRange	U+0000 to U+10FFFF →
compatibleWith	ISO/IEC 10646 →
defines	bidirectional text behavior → character properties → code points → collation rules → encoding forms → grapheme cluster boundaries → line breaking rules → normalization forms →
developedBy	Unicode Consortium →
documentationFormat	multi-volume standard text and data files →
firstPublished	1991 →
fullName	The Unicode Standard →
goal	interoperability across platforms and languages → universal character set →
hasEncodingForm	UTF-16 → UTF-32 → UTF-8 →
hasGoverningBody	Unicode Consortium →
hasTechnicalReport	Unicode Technical Report #29 →
hasTechnicalStandard	Unicode Technical Standard #10 →
includesDatabase	Unicode Character Database →
initialVersion	Unicode 1.0 →
latestVersion	Unicode 15.1 →
license	freely available standard →
maintainedBy	Unicode Consortium →
mostCommonEncodingOnWeb	UTF-8 →
numberOfPlanes	17 →
organizesInto	planes →
provides	Unicode Scalar Values →
replaces	many legacy character encodings →
supplementaryPlanesRange	U+10000 to U+10FFFF →
supports	Arabic script → Chinese characters → Cyrillic script → Devanagari script → Greek script → Hebrew script → Japanese scripts → Korean Hangul → Latin script → currency symbols → emoji → historic scripts → mathematical symbols → musical notation symbols → punctuation → technical symbols →
usedIn	databases → modern operating systems → modern programming languages → web technologies →
usesBitWidth	21-bit code space →
versioningScheme	major.minor →

Referenced by (55)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Basic Multilingual Plane ("Unicode Standard") → Devanagari Extended-A ("Unicode Standard") → Unicode 15.0 ("Unicode Standard") → Unicode Character Database ("Unicode Standard") → Unicode Technical Report #29 ("Unicode Standard") →	partOf
Adobe InDesign → ICQ → Java → Perl → XML →	supports
Georgian Supplement ("Unicode Standard") → Latin Extended-B → Latin-1 Supplement →	assignedInStandard
Amharic → Kannada → Marathi language →	hasDigitalSupport
Hangul → Sundanese script →	encodingStandard
Sinhala script → Thaana script →	hasEncodingStandard
ISO/IEC 10646 ("Unicode Standard") → Unicode Technical Standard #10 ("Unicode Standard") →	relatedStandard
Cyrillic Extended-B → Devanagari Extended-A →	standard
KORMARC → XML →	usesCharacterEncoding
Unicode →	abbreviation
ISO/IEC 10646 ("Unicode Standard") →	alignedWith
Unicode Technical Standard #10 ("Unicode text") →	appliesTo
MathML →	compatibleWith
Unicode Scalar Values ("Unicode Standard") →	definedBy
Lao script →	digitalEncodingStandard
Latin alphabet →	encodedIn
Grantha script →	encodedInStandard
XHTML →	encoding
Unicode ("The Unicode Standard") →	fullName
Icelandic →	hasDigitalEncoding
Malayalam script →	hasDigitalEncodingStandard
Baybayin →	hasModernEncoding
ASCII →	influenced
Unicode ("Unicode 1.0") →	initialVersion
Basic Latin ("Unicode 1.0") →	introducedInStandard
UTF-32 ("Unicode Standard") →	isDefinedBy
ASCII →	isSubsetOf
Unicode Consortium ("Unicode Standard") →	maintainsStandard
Unicode Consortium ("Unicode Emoji List") →	oversees
Unicode Consortium ("Unicode Standard") →	primaryProduct
Cyrillic script ("Unicode Standard") →	recognizedBy
Encoding Standard ("Unicode Standard") →	relatedTo
Odia script ("Unicode Standard") →	standardizedIn
Unicode Technical Standard #10 →	subject
ISO/IEC 8859-1 →	supersededInPracticeBy
Terminal (macOS) →	supportsFeature
Nuskhuri →	unicodeStandard
Unicode Technical Report #29 ("Unicode Standard") →	updatedWithEachVersionOf