what is unicode?

Question

I just don't understand this at all. Could someone provide me a link for a very basic beginner?

How can unicode manipulate a program?

Answer 1

Unicode is an industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

Answer 2

Unicode can only manipulate a program in the same way that any character code can manipulate a program, by being the character code in which the programming language was written. But it is still the programming language that creates the program, not Unicode.



For all the official stuff on Unicode go to the Unicode Home Page at http://unicode.org/ . For a simple explanation go to http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html .



Unicode is just a standard which has created and which regulates the Unicode character set, which is intended to eventually contain every *normal* character that has ever appeared in a book or on a monument or on a tablet. Under current font technology, no single font can hold all of Unicode. But many fonts hold large sections of Unicode.



To get free or low-cost Unicode fonts, other than those that you probably already have, see http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/ .

Answer 3

Here ya go..everything you need to know. Unicode can't manipulate a program.



http://www.unicode.org/standard/WhatIsUnicode.html