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Line 1: [[Category:Encyclopedia]]'''~~UNICODE~~Unicode''' is a mapping from characters in a ''very'' large set of languages to code points, together with a set of descriptive metadata about those code points (so that you can know whether they are alphabetic, numeric, symbolic, white-space, etc.)▼ ~~{{stub}}~~ ▲[[Category:Encyclopedia]]'''UNICODE''' is a mapping from characters in a ''very'' large set of languages to code points, together with a set of descriptive metadata about those code points (so that you can know whether they are alphabetic, numeric, symbolic, white-space, etc.) A number of different mechanisms are used for mapping this to a sequence of bytes. The single most important one (because it embeds [[ASCII]] and so is easy to deploy on existing systems) is [[UTF-8]]. * [[wikt:Appendix:Unicode\|Appendix:Unicode]] from Wiktionary