Difference between revisions of "Unicode"

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Unicode is a codification for characters. It pretends to replace [[ASCII]] as it allows (almost) all universally available characters to be encoded.
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[http://www.unicode.org Unicode] is a codification for characters. It pretends to replace [[ASCII]] as it allows (almost) all universally available characters to be encoded.
  
 
In Unicode, as opposed to ASCII, a single character might need more than one byte to encode.
 
In Unicode, as opposed to ASCII, a single character might need more than one byte to encode.
  
 
More information can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode Wikipedia's Unicode article].
 
More information can be found at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode Wikipedia's Unicode article].
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'''NOTE:''' [[aMule]] is a '''separate''' project and is '''not''' realated to Unicode in any way.

Latest revision as of 15:07, 11 November 2005

Unicode is a codification for characters. It pretends to replace ASCII as it allows (almost) all universally available characters to be encoded.

In Unicode, as opposed to ASCII, a single character might need more than one byte to encode.

More information can be found at Wikipedia's Unicode article.

NOTE: aMule is a separate project and is not realated to Unicode in any way.