Meaning of Unicode | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of Unicode.
   alt-of
2. A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.
3. Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.
   broadly, informal, uncountable
4. The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.

Equivalents

Examples

“This character isn't in Unicode.”

“The Thaana script is written from right to left. Conformant implementations of Thaana script must use the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (see Unicode Standard Annex #9, “Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm”).”

“convert to Unicode”

“Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.”

“As Kyle Chayka writes in a new history of the symbol at The Awl, the meaning of the “the shruggie” is always two, if not three- or four-, fold. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ represents nihilism, “bemused resignation,” and “a Zen-like tool to accept the chaos of universe.” It is Sisyphus in unicode.”

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