Intro
The Unicode Consortium is the premier standards organization for internationalization of software and services, including the encoding of text for all modern computing systems. The Consortium supports internationalization with the Unicode Standard and by providing core libraries, software algorithms, and structured data.
Unicode is a universal character encoding standard for representing all characters for all writing systems.
Unicode Format
Unicode assigns a unique code point to every character (see list of Unicode characters) with the format
U+0041(U + hexadecimal code point)
Character Unicode Code Point A U+0041 a U+0061 あ (Japanese) U+3042 م (Arabic) U+0645 😀 (emoji) U+1F600
UTF-8 Encoding
- See UTF-8