What is Unicode?

Unicode is a character encoding standard developed by the Unicode Consortium. The aim of the standard is to provide a universal way of encoding characters of any language, regardless of the computer system or platform being used. The core of Unicode, known as the Basic Multi-lingual Plane, contains space for over 65,000 characters. These include some 49,000 characters from the world's languages, include letters from alphabets, ideographs used in writing systems such as Chinese, and other characters such as currency and mathematical symbols. In addition to these, space is available for custom use, and supplementary code points are available for characters used in languages such as Chinese, where the total number of characters is not quantifiable.

The following LEADTOOLS features have been ported to support unicode:

• Programming interfaces that include unicode support:
  • LEADTOOLS API functions in the LEADTOOLS DLL's
  • LEADTOOLS C++ Class libraries
  • LEADTOOLS COM objects
  • LEADTOOLS .NET Class Libraries
    
    
• Raster Imaging features that support unicode:
  • File loading and saving
  • Image display
  • Common dialogs
  • Image processing
  • TWAIN
  • Digital Paint features
  • Screen capture
  • Special effects
  • Internet imaging
  • ImageList
  • etc..
    
    
• Document Imaging features that support unicode:
  • Annotations
  • DocClean
  • Imaging processing
  • MRC
  • OCR (Document Imaging)

• Medical Imaging features that support unicode
  • DICOM and DICOM Communications
    
    
• Other features that support unicode:
  • PDF
  • Barcode
    
    
• LEADTOOLS products that include unicode support:
  • LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro
  • LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging
  • LEADTOOLS Document Imaging
  • LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging
    
    
    

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