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After last year's update, another update was planned for summer 2016. We took this as an opportunity to review the Unicode standard in more detail. The non-profit Unicode Consortium is responsible for continuously developing and extending the Unicode standard.

Unicode is a character encoding system that assigns each character a unique number, independent of system, program, and language. Earlier encoding systems mainly had two problems: they covered too few characters and were often incompatible with each other.