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- Not to be confused with UniCode, Uniсode, nor Юᓂ곧⎔.
Unicode is a mapping of positive integers (called 'codepoints') onto characters, like ASCII which it supersedes. Unlike ASCII, it is not a single binary encoding, but several common ones, most notably UTF-8, which are used to encode Unicode codepoints in binary. UTF-8 actually includes ASCII as its first 128 characters for backwards compatibility.