The Unicode Standard

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The Unicode Standard is a universal character encoding system that assigns unique code points to text and symbols from virtually all writing systems, enabling consistent digital representation and interchange of written language worldwide.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf character encoding standard
international standard
alignedWith ISO/IEC 10646 NERFINISHED
appliesTo data interchange
databases
digital text processing
operating systems
programming languages
virtually all writing systems
web technologies
covers compatibility characters
emoji
historic scripts
mathematical notation
modern scripts
musical notation symbols
punctuation
symbols
technical symbols
defines Unicode bidirectional algorithm NERFINISHED
Unicode blocks NERFINISHED
Unicode character properties
Unicode code points
Unicode collation algorithm NERFINISHED
Unicode normalization forms NERFINISHED
Unicode planes
Unicode scalar values NERFINISHED
canonical decomposition
case mapping rules
combining characters
compatibility decomposition
emoji properties
general category property
grapheme cluster
line breaking properties
numeric values for characters
script property
surrogate pairs
documentType technical standard
enables internationalization
localization
multilingual computing
firstPlaneName Basic Multilingual Plane NERFINISHED
firstPlaneRange 0x0000–0xFFFF
firstPublished 1991
fullName The Unicode Standard NERFINISHED
goal consistent text interchange
interoperable text representation
universal character encoding
hasSupplement Unicode Standard Annexes NERFINISHED
Unicode Technical Reports NERFINISHED
Unicode Technical Standards NERFINISHED
latestVersionPublisher Unicode Consortium NERFINISHED
maintainedBy Unicode Consortium NERFINISHED
maximumCodePoints 1114112
organizesCodeSpaceInto 17 planes
primaryEncodingForms UTF-16 NERFINISHED
UTF-32
UTF-8 NERFINISHED
relatedStandard ISO/IEC 10646 NERFINISHED
replaces legacy character sets
shortName Unicode NERFINISHED
usesCodeSpace 0x0000–0x10FFFF
versioningScheme major.minor.update
website https://www.unicode.org/standard/standard.html

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Unicode Standard Annexes clarifies The Unicode Standard
this entity surface form: the core Unicode Standard
Grantha (U+11300–U+1137F) definedIn The Unicode Standard
subject surface form: Grantha (Unicode block)
Supplementary Private Use Area-A documentation The Unicode Standard
this entity surface form: Unicode Standard, Section on Private-Use Characters and Planes
Unicode 3.0 documentedIn The Unicode Standard
this entity surface form: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 (book)
Unicode 4.1 documentedIn The Unicode Standard
this entity surface form: The Unicode Standard, Version 4.1.0
Mark encodedIn The Unicode Standard
this entity surface form: Unicode standard
UCD partOf The Unicode Standard
Unicode Standard Annexes updatedWhen The Unicode Standard
this entity surface form: Unicode Standard is revised