A text format standard which uses 2 "bytes" per character. This allows for over 65,000 different characters and symbols to be displayed and makes it possible to show Chinese, Japanese, Cherokee and a whole lot of other languages.
When choosing texts, you can press a button to test whether text files are encoded in Unicode.
There are a number of different "flavours" of Unicode as defined by the Unicode Consortium.
MS Word (2003) offers
| • | Unicode |
| • | Unicode (Big-Endian) (generated by some Mac or Unix software) |
| • | Unicode (UTF-7) |
| • | Unicode (UTF-8) |
The last two are 1-byte versions, not really Unicode in my opinion. WordSmith wants the first of these but should automatically convert from any of the others.
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