Unicode
Which characters set is universal?
Unicode or The Unicode Standard, is a universal character set. In one place it’s
defines all the characters needed for writing the majority of living languages
in use on computers.
How many characters in Unicode?
Unicode is ultimately capable of encoding more than 1.1 million character.
Goal of standart (which is partially done) be a superset of all characters sets.
As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 155,063 characters with code points,
covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets.
What is BMP in Unicode?
The first , code point positions in the Unicode character set
are said to constitute the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). The BMP includes most
of the more commonly used characters.
The Unicode character set also contains space for around a million additional code point positions. Characters in this latter range are referred to as supplementary characters.
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