Unicode

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjunɪˌkəʊd/
• 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

• Albanian: Unicode
• Amharic: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod)
• Arabic: يُونِيكُود m (yūnīkūd)
• Armenian: Յունիկոդ (Yunikod)
• Belarusian: Юніко́д m (Junikód)
• Bengali: ইউনিকোড (bn) (iunikōḍ)
• Blin: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod)
• Bulgarian: Унико́д m (Unikód)
• Catalan: Unicode m
• Chinese:

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

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

• Czech: Unicode
• Danish: Unicode
• Dutch: Unicode (nl)
• Esperanto: Unikodo
• Finnish: Unicode (fi)
• French: Unicode (fr) m
• Georgian: უნიკოდი (uniḳodi)
• German: Unicode (de) m
• Greek: Unicode (el) n
• Hebrew: יוניקוד (he) (yunikod)
• Hindi: यूनिकोड (yūnikoḍ)
• Hungarian: Unicode
• Igbo: Yunikod
• Indonesian: Unicode
• Interlingua: Unicode
• Italian: Unicode (it) m
• Japanese: ユニコード (yunikōdo)
• Kannada: ಯುನಿಕೋಡ್ (yunikōḍ)
• Khün: ᨿᩪᨶᩥᨤ᩠ᨯᩰᨯ᩼
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 유니코드 (ko) (yunikodeu)
• Latvian: Unikods m
• Lithuanian: Unikodas m
• Maori: waehereao
• Marathi: युनिकोड (yunikoḍ)
• Mongolian: Юникод (Junikod)
• Norwegian: Unicode
• Persian: یونیکد (yuni-kod)
• Polish: Unicode
• Portuguese: Unicode m
• Romanian: Unicode (ro) m
• Russian: Юнико́д (ru) m (Junikód), Унико́д m (Unikód)
• Sebat Bet Gurage: ዩኒኮድ
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Уникод m

  Roman: Unikod m

• Sindhi: يونيڪوڊ
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Unicode

• Spanish: Unicode (es) m
• Swedish: Unicode
• Tamil: யூனிக்கோடு (yūṉikkōṭu)
• Telugu: విశ్వ సంకేత మాల (te) (viśva saṅkēta māla), యూనీకోడ్ (yūnīkōḍ)
• Thai: ยูนิโคด (yooníkôht)
• Tigrinya: ዩኒኮድ (yunikod)
• Turkish: Evrensel Kod
• Ukrainian: Юніко́д m (Junikód)
• Uyghur: يۇنىكود (yunikod)
• Vietnamese: Unicode (vi)
• Welsh: Unicode (cy)
• Xamtanga: ዩኒኮድ

See also

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

Further reading

• Unicode website

Anagrams

• doucine

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Unicode m

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