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Microsoft was one of the first companies to implement Unicode in their products. Windows NT was the first operating system that used "wide characters" in system calls.Using the (now obsolete) UCS-2 encoding scheme at first, it was upgraded to the variable-width encoding UTF-16 starting with Windows 2000, allowing a representation of additional planes with surrogate pairs.
In addition, using Unicode would ease the implementation of natural language processing technologies. [2] The Myanmar government designated 1 October 2019 as "U-Day" to officially switch to Unicode. [4] The full transition was expected by some to take two years. [9] [needs update] Unicode uses the private-use script code Qaag to mark text ...
Unicode documentation Code chart ∣ Web page Note : Five characters were removed from the Thai block in version 1.0.1 during the process of unifying with ISO 10646 .
Bitstream Cyberbit is a commercial serif Unicode font designed by Bitstream Inc.It is freeware for non-commercial uses. It was one of the first widely available fonts to support a large portion of the Unicode repertoire.
Phoenician is a Unicode block containing characters used across the Mediterranean world from the 12th century BCE to the 3rd century CE. The Phoenician alphabet was added to the Unicode Standard in July 2006 with the release of version 5.0.
The distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph variant is somewhat problematic in the case of the runes; the reason is the high degree of variation of letter shapes in historical inscriptions, with many "characters" appearing in highly variant shapes, and many specific shapes taking the role of a number of different characters over the period of runic use (roughly the 3rd to 14th ...
Extended Unix Code (EUC) is a multibyte character encoding system used primarily for Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese (characters).. The most commonly used EUC codes are variable-length encodings with a character belonging to an ISO/IEC 646 compliant coded character set (such as ASCII) taking one byte, and a character belonging to a 94×94 coded character set (such as GB 2312 ...
As of Unicode version 16.0, Cyrillic script is encoded across several blocks: . Cyrillic: U+0400–U+04FF, 256 characters; Cyrillic Supplement: U+0500–U+052F, 48 characters ...