Unicode

Unicode is a 16-bit character set standard, designed and maintained by the non-profit organization named. Unicode is not a encoding. The same character can be displayed as a variety of glyphs, depending not only on the font and style, but also on the adjacent characters. A sequence of characters can be displayed as a single glyph or a character can be displayed as a sequence of glyphs. Which will be the case, is often font dependent.

History
Unicode was originally designed to be universal, unique, and uniform so that the code would cover all major modern written languages (universal), each character was to have exactly one encoding (unique), and each character was to be represented by a fixed width in bits (uniform).

Parallel to the development of Unicode, an / standard was being worked on that put a large emphasis on being compatible with older 8-bit character codes, such as ASCII and. To avoid having two competing 16-bit standards, the two teams compromised in 1992 to define a common character code standard, known both as Unicode and (BMP). Since the merger the character codes are the same but the two standards are not identical. The ISO/IEC standard covers only coding while Unicode includes additional specifications that help implementation.

Emoji was first standardized internationally in Unicode 6.0, released in 2010. They are now considered to be a large part of in. In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the (😂) the Word of the Year.

Apple and Unicode
Mark Davis, the co-author of KanjiTalk and WorldScript at Apple Computer, co-founded and became the president of the.

In 1998, Mac OS 8.5 introduced support for Unicode through Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (ATSUI) 1.0, which initially operated alongside the older WorldScript text engine. As ATSUI itself was based on the transitional Carbon API, it was also deprecated in favor of Core Text with the release of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) in October 2007.