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Why was unicode invented?

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Hi there


It was invented to accommodate the vast number of symbols used worldwide.


I hope that's help:)

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Unicode is a universal computing standard to represent texts in most writing systems. It was invented to store most of the world's characters. It started during 1987. Joe Becker from Xerox was the one who made a proposal for Unicode.
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