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.
Observed surface forms (6)
Statements (65)
| 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
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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
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localization ⓘ multilingual computing ⓘ |
| firstPlaneName | Basic Multilingual Plane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstPlaneRange | 0x0000–0xFFFF ⓘ |
| firstPublished | 1991 ⓘ |
| fullName | The Unicode Standard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal |
consistent text interchange
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interoperable text representation ⓘ universal character encoding ⓘ |
| hasSupplement |
Unicode Standard Annexes
NERFINISHED
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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 ⓘ |
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
the core Unicode Standard
subject surface form:
Grantha (Unicode block)
this entity surface form:
Unicode Standard, Section on Private-Use Characters and Planes
this entity surface form:
The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0 (book)
this entity surface form:
The Unicode Standard, Version 4.1.0
this entity surface form:
Unicode Standard is revised