Unicode

Unicode was created in august 1987 by joe becker with lee collin and mark davis from a company called apple. They were investigating the problems of how multiple languages or other special characters can be implemented by using computer. Here , unicode is used to manipulate text expressed in the most of the world's writing systems. It can be implemented by different character of coodings.Unicode also can be used to translate texts in multiple languages, special fonts and browsing softwares. The difference between ASCII and unicode is unicode more to languages, emoticons, or special fonts while ASCII is more to characters or input that comes from the keyboard.

Examples of unicode in 8 bit HTML using 'character entities', for instance:

• ॐ
• = ॐא
• = א‎Ω = Ω