Unicode

Pronunciation

• US IPA: en, /ˈjunɪˌkəʊd/
• UK IPA: en, /ˈjuːnɪˌkəʊd/

Origin

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

Full definition of Unicode

Proper noun

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.

Further reading

• Unicode website

Anagrams