AI engineering glossary · Computing foundations
What is unicode?
Unicode: A universal standard that gives every character from the world's writing systems, plus symbols and emoji, a unique number called a code point. It defines the characters, while encodings such as UTF-8 define how those numbers become bytes.
Unicode: an example
The Devanagari letter अ has the Unicode code point U+0905.
Related terms
More Computing foundations terms
- Uniform Resource Locator
- Unix time
- Uptime
- User space
- UTF-8
- Virtual machine
- Virtual memory
- Virtual private network
Where you learn it
Unicode is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.