CBSE Class 11 Computer Science Question 64 of 91

Data Representation — Question 10

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What is Unicode ? What is its significance ?

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Unicode is a universal character encoding scheme that can represent different sets of characters belonging to different languages by assigning a number to each of the character. It has the following significance:

  1. It defines all the characters needed for writing the majority of known languages in use today across the world.
  2. It is a superset of all other character sets.
  3. It is used to represent characters across different platforms and programs.