Unicode used 16 bit number to store information about character & symbols, whereas ASCII used 8 bit. Thus Unicode can represent more than 65000 characters/symbols as compared to ASCII only 256 characters. Unicode characters are standardized to represent most of commonly used languages worldwide including asian/indian languages. This is helping in common standard for document generation in any language independent of any custom software using custom mapping of characters. You can read E-mail message world wide , read message in browsers in any language.
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