What is unicode?

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What is unicode?..

Answer / satyam

A 16-bit character encoding used in Java.Unicode allows
Java to handle international characters for most of the
world’s living languages, including Arabic, Armenian,
Bengali, Bopomofo, Chinese (via unified Han), Cyrillic,
English, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hebrew, Hindi
(Devanagari), Japanese (Kanji, Hiragana and Katakana via
unified Han), Kannada, Korean (Hangul via unified Han),
Lao, Maylayalam, Oriya, Tai, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan…
Unicode will make it much easier for non-English speaking
programmers to write programs for English speaking users
and vice versa.

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What is unicode?..

Answer / vinoth sing

java uses the uniform 16 bit coding scheme called unicode to
represents characters which can incorporate 65000 characters.

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What is unicode?..

Answer / chandra sekhar dash

Unicode systemis an encoding standard that provides aunique
number for every character, no matter what the
platform,program,language is.Unicode uses 2bytes to
represent a character

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What is unicode?..

Answer / rohan mendez

Unicode is a Character encoding, which provides a system of numbers to represent characters in a digital device such as computers. java uses UTF-16 encoding scheme of Unicode, which represent each character in one or two sequence of 16 bit bytes, these bytes are called code units.

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What is unicode?..

Answer / guru

unicode is the universal code. In language like java the
applications can be developed in diff types of OS and
deployed in diff OS because of its Portability feature.
Since it is used in various types of OS across the world,
the type of data (eng,latin etc) needs to be stored, in
such situation java uses Unicode instead of ASCII code to
accept the data of different types and used across the world

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