The Unique Unicode

Developed by: Ubiquity
Type of resource: Web article
Target audience: General
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"The Unicode character set is a character set projected to represent the writing schemes of all of the world's major languages. Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, what the programme, or what the language." Read the full article by Mir Lutful Kabir Saadi for a good basic introduction to Unicode.

http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v6i21_saadi.html