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A method of representing characters (such as A, 9, %, ழ, ♦, and non-printing control characters) for storage and communication. The Unicode standard provides a code point (number) for each of over 100,000 different characters, and the standard is implemented by character encodings such as UTF-8, widely used in Linux systems. The first 128 Unicode code points are the ASCII characters, which UTF-8 represents with 1 byte per character.

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