Unicode
used 16 bit number to store information about Charater & symbols,
whereas ascii used 8 bit. thus Unicode can represent more than 65000
characters/symbols as compared to ASCII only 256 characters. Unicode
charqacters are standardized to represent most of commonly used
languages worldwide including asian/indian languages. This is helping in
common standard for document genration in any language independent of
any custom software using custom mapping of characters. You can read
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