The Origins of Unicode

I was an absolute novice. I had no idea when I very first started making this list that they even had an official name, H. So Unicode is inscrutable, very hard to figure out their documentation. It actually originates from like the late 80s, early 90s in Silicon Valley. There was discussions between Apple engineers and Microsoft engineers who realized look, if various different computational devices are being constructed all across the globe, we want to make sure that each of those different devices can communicate correctly with one another.

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