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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE html
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PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<html lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
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<meta name="security" content="public" />
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<meta name="Robots" content="index,follow" />
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<meta http-equiv="PICS-Label" content='(PICS-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true r (cz 1 lz 1 nz 1 oz 1 vz 1) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0) "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" l gen true r (SS~~000 1))' />
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<meta name="DC.Type" content="concept" />
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<meta name="DC.Title" content="Why use Unicode?" />
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<meta name="abstract" content="Unicode has many advantageous functions." />
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<meta name="description" content="Unicode has many advantageous functions." />
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<meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbagsunicodeucs2.htm" />
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<meta name="DC.Relation" scheme="URI" content="rbags18030.htm" />
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<meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" />
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<meta name="DC.Rights.Owner" content="(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1998, 2006" />
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<meta name="DC.Format" content="XHTML" />
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<meta name="DC.Identifier" content="rbagsunicode" />
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<meta name="DC.Language" content="en-us" />
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<!-- All rights reserved. Licensed Materials Property of IBM -->
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<!-- US Government Users Restricted Rights -->
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<!-- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by -->
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<!-- GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. -->
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ibmdita.css" />
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./ic.css" />
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<title>Why use Unicode?</title>
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</head>
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<body id="rbagsunicode"><a name="rbagsunicode"><!-- --></a>
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<!-- Java sync-link --><script language="Javascript" src="../rzahg/synch.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<h1 class="topictitle1">Why use Unicode?</h1>
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<div><p>Unicode has many advantageous functions.</p>
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<p>The operating system provides multilingual
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support. Unicode provides the means to store and retrieve data in the user's
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national language of choice in a single file, and therefore provides for one
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database file to support all text needs, regardless of the language of the
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input device. For example, the same parts file can have Greek, Russian, and
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English descriptions and names in it.</p>
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<p>Unicode allows for the use of <em>combining characters</em>. A combining
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character is a non-spacing character that is used together with a non-combining
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character to form a composite character, or glyph. For example, Latin small
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letter A used with a combining tilde results in <img src="la190000.gif" alt="A graphical character" />.</p>
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</div>
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<div>
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<div class="familylinks">
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbagsunicodeucs2.htm" title="Unicode is a standard that precisely defines a character set as well as a small number of encodings for it. It enables you to handle text in any language efficiently. It allows a single application to work for a global audience.">Work with Unicode</a></div>
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</div>
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<div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
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<div><a href="rbags18030.htm" title="GB 18030-2000 is a Chinese standard that specifies an extended code page for use in the Chinese market.">GB18030: The Chinese standard</a></div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>
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