Unicode

For Wiktionary's use of Unicode, see Wiktionary:Unicode

English

Etymology

Published as a draft proposal in 1988, "intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding".

Pronunciation

• US IPA^(key): /ˈjunɪˌkoːd/
• UK IPA^(key): /ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd/

• Audio (UK)

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Proper noun

Unicode

1. (computing) A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
2. (computing) The Unicode standards together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.

Translations

series of computer encoding standards

• Arabic: يُونِيكُود m (yūnīkūd)
• Armenian: Յունիկոդ (Yunikod)
• Belarusian: Юніко́д m (Junikód)
• Bengali: ইউনিকোড (bn) (iunikoḑ)
• Bulgarian: Унико́д m (Unikód)
• Catalan: Unicode m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 統一碼, 统一码 (tung² jat¹ maa⁵), 萬國碼, 万国码 (maan⁶ gwok³ maa⁵), 單一碼, 单一码 (daan¹ jat¹ maa⁵)

  Mandarin: 統一碼 (zh), 统一码 (zh) (tǒngyīmǎ), 萬國碼 (zh), 万国码 (zh) (wànguómǎ), 單一碼 (zh), 单一码 (zh) (dānyīmǎ)

• Czech: Unicode
• Danish: Unicode
• Dutch: Unicode (nl)
• Esperanto: Unikodo
• Finnish: Unicode
• French: Unicode (fr) m
• Georgian: უნიკოდი (uniḳodi)
• German: Unicode (de) m
• Greek: Unicode (el) n (Unicode)
• Hebrew: יוניקוד (he) (yunikod)
• Hindi: यूनिकोड (yūnikoḍ)
• Indonesian: Unicode

• Japanese: ユニコード (yunikōdo)
• Khün: ᨿᩪᨶᩥᨤ᩠ᨯᩰᨯ᩼
• Korean: 유니코드 (ko) (yunikodeu)
• Latvian: Unikods m
• Lithuanian: Unikodas m
• Mongolian: Юникод (Junikod)
• Norwegian: Unicode
• Persian: یونیکد (yuni-kod)
• Polish: Unicode
• Portuguese: Unicode m
• Romanian: Unicod m
• Russian: Юнико́д (ru) m (Junikód), Унико́д m (Unikód)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Уникод m

  Roman: Unikod m

• Spanish: Unicode (es) m
• Telugu: విశ్వ సంకేత మాల (te) (viśva saṃkēta māla)
• Thai: ยูนิโคด (yooníkôht)
• Ukrainian: Юніко́д m (Junikód)
• Welsh: Unicode (cy)

See also

• ASCII
• EBCDIC
• UTF-7
• UTF-8
• UTF-16
• Appendix:Unicode

Further reading

• Unicode website

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Unicode m

1. (computing) Unicode (series of computer encoding standards)