Unicode — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.

   Examples

   This character isn't in Unicode.

   More examples (1)

   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”).

2. The Unicode standards, together with standards for representing character strings as byte strings.

   Examples

   convert to Unicode

Noun

1. Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.

   Usage

   • broadly
   • Informal
   • Uncountable

   Related words

   ASCIIEBCDICUTF-7UTF-8UTF-16

   Examples

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