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Unicode is intended to be a universal character set for describing all the characters required for written text incorporating all writing systems, technical symbols and punctuation.

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Why are there multiple Unicode encodings?

I think it's useful to separate the 2 ideas: Unicode - mapping of characters from all over the world to code points. Encoding - mapping of code points to bit patterns (UTF-8, UTF-16, etc). …
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