Unicode is used to encode the vast majority of text on the Internet, including most web pages, and relevant Unicode support has become a common consideration in contemporary software development.
Unicode has largely supplanted the previous environment of myriad incompatible character sets, each used within different locales and on different computer architectures. Unicode is ultimately capable of encoding more than 1.1 million characters. Moreover, the widespread adoption of Unicode was in large part responsible for the initial popularization of emoji outside of Japan. Unicode encodes thousands of emoji, with the continued development thereof conducted by the Consortium as a part of the standard. Many common characters, including numerals, punctuation, and other symbols, are unified within the standard and are not treated as specific to any given writing system. Version 15.1 of the standard defines 149 813 characters and 161 scripts used in various ordinary, literary, academic, and technical contexts. Unicode, formally The Unicode Standard, is a text encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text written in all of the world's major writing systems. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This article contains uncommon Unicode characters.
