unicoden.
A telegraphic code in which one word or set of letters represents a sentence or phrase; a telegram or message in this.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun] > particular codes
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > code, cipher > [noun] > instance of > coded message
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1886 ‘Unicode’: The Universal Telegraphic Phrase-Book Pref. p. iii The ‘Unicode’ aims at..a low price.
1886 ‘Unicode’: The Universal Telegraphic Phrase-Book Pref. p. v The ‘Unicode’ word ‘Obumbro’.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 6/3 [He] gave evidence as to sending a unicode to both [persons].
1899 Daily News 23 Dec. 5/3 The dispatch of messages in ‘Unicode’.
Draft additions December 2005
Computing. Chiefly in form Unicode. An international encoding standard for characters in different alphabets and scripts, in which each letter, digit, and symbol is assigned a unique numeric value, usually represented in hexadecimal.
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1988 J. D. Becker Unicode 88 (O.E.D. archive) (Internal document, Unicode Consortium) ¶1.1 This document is a draft proposal for the design of an international/multilingual text character encoding system, tentatively called Unicode.
1988 J. D. Becker Unicode 88 (Electronic text) (Internal document, Unicode Consortium) ¶1.3 The name ‘Unicode’ is intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding.
1991 N.Y. Times 20 Feb. d1/6 A consortium has been formed to develop and promote the new code, known as Unicode.
1993 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Apr. 42/2 All these schemes need to be modified in situations where text isn't represented by 8-bit ASCII encoding. For example, Windows/NT uses 16-bit Unicode internally for all text.
2002 Sci. Amer. June 17/2 International domain names depend on Unicode, a standard that provides numeric codes for every letter in all scripts worldwide.
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