2.15 The Unicode Character Set
Although the ASCII character set is, unquestionably, the most popular character representation on computers, it is certainly not the only format around. For example, IBM uses the EBCDIC code on many of its mainframe and minicomputer lines. Because EBCDIC appears mainly on IBM's big iron and you'll rarely encounter it on personal computer systems, we will not consider that character set in this text. Another character representation that is becoming popular on small computer systems (and large ones, for that matter) is the Unicode character set. Unicode overcomes two of ASCII's greatest limitations: the limited character space (i.e., a maximum of 128/256 characters in an 8-bit byte) and the lack of international (beyond ...
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