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title: "unicode"
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- cosc204
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## Unicode
![unicode](https://i.imgur.com/GEtVItW.png)

- Other non roman languages
	- greek, arabic, chinese, hebrew, japanese, thai etc.
	- atrology symbols
	- emoji etc
- Unicode
	- developed by the Unicode Consortium
	- coordinated with ISO/IEC 10646
	- a 21-bit code with 144,697 characters from 159 scripts
	- unicode maps from character numbers (code points) into glyphs (graphical representations)
	- Some(many) are reserved