Unicode

/ ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd /

noun

1. computing a character set for all languages

Unicode

1. A computer standard for encoding characters. Each character is represented by sixteen bits. Whereas ASCII, being an 8-bit encoding scheme, can only represent 256 characters, Unicode has 65,536 combinations, enabling it to encode the letters of all written languages as well as thousands of characters in languages such as Japanese and Chinese.

Example Sentences

I mean, you think about it, the whole emoji process is, once a year, the unicode consortium approves some handful of new emoji.

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If you can just make new ones on your phone from now on, what the heck do we need the unicode consortium for?

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There is a biodiversity crisis in our phones, according to a team of ecologists who have undertaken the most comprehensive survey to date on the flora and fauna of Emojipedia, the global directory of pictograms recognized by the international Unicode Standard.

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Proposals for new emojis are reviewed by the Unicode Consortium, an international software standards body that functions sort of like the emoji Hague.

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Out with little blue Larry the Bird, the iconic Twitter logo originally named for the NBA legend; in with a white-on-black 𝕏 character that, as the Financial Times confirmed, originates from the Unicode standard and was not, as several tweeters assumed, lifted without permission from the historic Monotype design company.

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