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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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Are there historical problems with non-ASCII identifier characters in code?

Here unicode is relevant (after all, there must be a reason for new languages such as Swift, C# and others to accept unicode identifiers). … Edit: All unicode chars are still not equal! Accepting unicode characters in an identifier does not ensure that all unicode characters are equally treated in all languages that claim to support it. …
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What Unicode Transformation Format is being represented when just Unicode is written?

So speaking of unicode encoding is misleading: there is not a single one. But there are common usage of this term: on Windows, when you say UNICODE, it is assumed that it's UTF-16 encoding. … In the windows API, the default unicode encoding uses a wchar_t which is mapped to a 16 bit integer. on Linux, the preferred encoding for unicode is UTF-8. …
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What is the name of the type of program to produce Unicode characters from ASCII combinations?

The more specific operation to transform an input message in an output of codes (such as Unicode) is called encoding. This would make your programme an encoder. …
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Compiling for string and wstring

a lot more but only once } Demo If needed, you could then easily switch to char32_t if you'd wanted to work with full 32 bits unicode across all platforms (currently wchar_t on windows is 16 bits and … Conditional compilation In theory you could imagine a runtime decision whether to run unicode or not. But to achieve this you'd need to create all objects using an abstract factory. …
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