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Yellow railway station nameboards at Sonpur in Bihar showing the station name in Hindi Devanagari, English Latin letters and Urdu script
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What Is Unicode and How Does It Work?

Unicode is the universal standard that gives every character in every writing system its own number, so a Hindi message, a Tamil web page and an emoji look the same on any device. Here is how it works, and how India's own ISCII code shaped it.