why was unicode invented?

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anonymous · Answer

The old system, ASCII, was no where near large enough to deal with all the different languages & symbols that exist.  It designed by English speakers and was relatively primitive, as it was all the hardware could really handle at the time.  

Unicode has been around for a long time and there have been many iterations of it to accommodate the vast number of symbols used worldwide.

anonymous · Answer

good answer ........which courses are u studying ?

anonymous · Answer

Thanks!

Business & Computer Science courses, although right now I'm just taking single-variable calculus in the summer semester.

anonymous · Answer

thanks .....and....im just doing computer science and mathematics ........hope i will contact u when having some problems .....next semester i will be taking assembly language and linear algebra  .....

anonymous · Answer

Right on!  Assembly is some cool stuff, although I haven't had a chance to study it yet.

anonymous · Answer

where do u study?

anonymous · Answer

Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, BC, Canada Link: http://www.tru.ca/ Google maps: https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=kamloops+bc&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&hl=en

anonymous · Answer

nice one :)

anonymous · Answer

i got it... and for im @university of limpopo in mankweng limpopo. south africa

link. http.www.ul.ac.za
on google did not get the link easier  but if u can type university of limpopo on google maps then it will appear .....