Unicode is divided into numeric ranges of similar characters. It contains all the characters in Arial plus full fonts for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and Hebrew, plus all of the different symbol characters and character ranges. The file size of the Arial Unicode MS font is 22 MB because it is a complete Unicode font. Why is the file size of the Arial Unicode MS font so large?.Just as the character 'a' can be a French, German, or English 'a', even if they have different meanings, a particular Han ideograph may map to a character that is used in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.įor more information about the Unicode Standard 2.1, please browse to the following Web site: No single character is assumed to identify a language in itself. The fundamental idea behind Unicode is to be language-independent, which helps conserve space in the character map. In particular, punctuation and symbols are applicable across a very wide range of usages and scripts (writing systems). Although the characters in Unicode are grouped into blocks, this is only a rough grouping, because characters can be categorized many different ways.

You may not find the character in what you think is the obvious place. For each character that is defined in Unicode, you find an assigned code point: a hexadecimal number (range 0x0000 to 0xFFFF) that is used to represent that character in computer data. Unicode provides a unique number for every character, regardless of which platform, program, or language is being used. In comparison, a double-byte system must determine which values in a string are single-byte character codes and which are double-byte character codes. All Unicode values are double-byte, which simplifies the way that a Unicode-based system reads a string of text. Unicode allows a larger range of characters to be addressed than is possible by using a single-byte character encoding. Each Unicode index refers unambiguously to a given character. Unicode is a 16-bit encoding that encompasses many characters that are used in general text interchange throughout the world. Unicode: A numeric character-encoding system that is defined by the Unicode Consortium and used by Microsoft Windows and some other computer systems.

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