Unicode Faq Basic Questions

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Q: What is Unicode?: Unicode is maintained by the Unicode Consortium and provides the basis for processing, storage, and interchange of text data in modern software and protocols.
Q: What is the scope of Unicode?: Unicode covers modern and ancient writing systems, technical symbols, punctuation, and many other text characters.
Q: Does Unicode encode scripts or languages?: Unicode encodes scripts used for writing languages, not languages themselves.
Q: Where can I purchase the Unicode software or the Unicode font?: Unicode is not software or a font; it is a character encoding system.
Q: My computer cannot display some of the latest Unicode symbols...: display can depend on fonts, OS support, app support, and language/script support.
Q: What is Unicode?
Q: What is the scope of Unicode?
Q: Does Unicode encode scripts or languages?
Q: Where can I purchase the Unicode software or the Unicode font?

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Unicode And UTF-8 draft

How modern text moves from characters to code points to bytes, and why UTF-8 is different from ASCII and Unicode.