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Unicode – The World Standard for Text and Emoji
Everyone in the world should be able to use their own language on phones and computers. Learn More about Unicode
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About Unicode
The Unicode Consortium is the standards body for the internationalization of software and services. Deployed on more than 20 billion devices around the world, Unicode also provides the solution for internationalization and the architecture to support localization.
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Overview – Unicode
The variety of languages found on the Web today is thanks to the character support provided by Unicode, which enables computers to support virtually every language in use in the world today, and for users and programmers to develop content in their own native language.
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Technical Quick Start Guide - Unicode
The Unicode Standard refers to the standard character set that represents all natural language characters. Unicode can encode up to roughly 1.1 million characters, allowing it to support all of the world’s languages and scripts in a single, universal standard.
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Basic Info – Unicode
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FAQ – Unicode
A: Unicode is the universal character encoding, maintained by the Unicode Consortium. This encoding standard provides the basis for processing, storage and interchange of text data in any language in all modern software and information technology protocols.
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Emoji – Unicode
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About Emoji - Unicode
From a technical perspective, inside the computer or phone, each is a sequence of one or more Unicode characters, but to the billions of users using emoji each day, they can express love, congratulations, ideas, culture, and much more.
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Why Join – Unicode
The Unicode technical committees carry out the technical work of the Consortium. They are unrivaled sources of expertise on all aspects of internationalization, multilingual and multiscript systems, and bring together the seasoned key players and new talent in software internationalization.
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Emoji Frequency – Unicode
How does the Unicode Consortium choose which new emoji to add to the Unicode Standard? One important factor is data about how frequently current emoji are used.