Unicode
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What is Unicode?
Unicode is a standard for encoding characters. It is a superset of ASCII, which means that ASCII is a subset of Unicode. Unicode is a 16-bit encoding, which means that it can encode 2^16 = 65536 characters. This is a lot more than ASCII, which can only encode 128 characters.
Free resources to learn Unicode
More in stage 8: Character Encodings
Unicode: common questions
Can I learn Unicode in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Unicode in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Unicode tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 83 of 188 in the free Computer Science roadmap, in stage 8, Character Encodings. If you are new to Computer Science, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.