Glossary
Corp.). Unicode employs a 16-bit
coding scheme that allows for 65,536
distinct characters, enough to
support all significant world
languages, including several archaic
or arcane languages such as Sanskrit
and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Unicode
also includes representations for
punctuation marks, mathematical
symbols, and dingbats, with room left
for future expansion. Unicode
includes ASCII as a subset.
VxD Virtual Device Driver. A low-
level software component that
manages a single resource, such as a
display screen or a serial port.
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