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Unicode

Language-independent character set for international data processing (www.unicode.org). Subset of the UCS character string in accordance with ISO-10646. Unicode can represent 1114111 different characters numbered hexadecimally from U+0000 to U+10FFFF. The Unicode character set is normally accessed using a UTF or UCS character representation.

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