Unicode
Worldwide character standard that is capable of having a unique number between U+0000 to U+10FFFF, which means a Unicode may be 8-bit, 16-bit, or 32-bit. Each character is assigned a code point, for example, U+0041 is the English letter A. Below is an example of how "Computer Hope" would be written in English Unicode.
U+0043 U+006F U+006D U+0070 U+0075 U+0074 U+0065 U+0072 U+00A0 U+0048 U+006F U+0070 U+0065
Microsoft Windows users can also find Unicode code points by running the character map utility.
Also see: ASCII, BOM, Character, UTF