!!! Overview[1]
[{$pagename}]  is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. 

[{$pagename}] is an [ISO] standard set of characters defined by [ISO 10646] "[Universal Coded Character Set]" ([UCS]) (plus amendments to that standard), which is the basis of many character encodings. 

[{$pagename}] contains just over 128,000 abstract characters, as of Unicode 9.0, each identified by an unambiguous name and an integer number called its [Code Point].

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* [#1] - [Unicode|Wikipedia:Unicode|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2017-02-16-