The use of this standard makes it possible to encode a very large number of characters from different scripts: in Unicode documents, Chinese characters, mathematical characters, letters of the Greek alphabet, Latin and Cyrillic alphabet can coexist, thus switching code pages becomes unnecessary.
The standard was proposed in 1991 by the not-for-profit organization, the Unicode Consortium. Unicode (English Unicode) is a character encoding standard that allows characters to be represented in almost all written languages.
