A standard for representing characters as integers. Unlike
ASCII, which uses 7 bits for each character, Unicode uses 16
bits, which means that it can represent more than 65,000 unique
characters. This is a bit of overkill for English and Western-
European languages, but it is necessary for some other
languages, such as Greek, Chinese and Japanese. Many analysts
believe that as the software industry becomes increasingly
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