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Unicode

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Unicode and the Universal Coded Character Set extend character encoding to all written languages, incorporating ASCII as the first 128 codes — backward compatible with the systems that came before.

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A message crossing three continents and two scripts survives because the codes agree everywhere.

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Backward compatibility is a design obligation, not luck.

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