The Unicode Standard, Version 12 0 Unicode Consortium Form

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before the world of unicode text encoding was kind of a mess because you had computers being invented in different countries and you had people using them on different languages since the mid 70s problems of bringing multiple language into computer text have continued to grow you had all these people inventing their own forms of encoding for their own computers so you had different sets of code for german you had different sets of code for russian you had different sets of code for chinese you had different sets of code for arabic and then suddenly they all had to talk to each other right because you had these networks if you sent things back and forth it would just end up in a big jumble kind of like when you have a cartoon character it's like cursing like little boxes and like weird things because there wasn't a common agreement on how to send languages back and forth across networks across different computers and this was a really big headache around 1987 i was contacted by this fel