| Unicode is an industry standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers through a single character set. |
Unicode is 'n industriestandaard wie se doel dit is om die manier te verskaf waardeur teks van alle vorme en tale geënkodeer kan word vir gebruik deur rekenaars deur 'n enkele karakterstel. |
| Originally, text-characters were represented in computers using byte-wide data: each printable character (and many non-printing, or "control" characters) were implemented using a single byte each, which allowed for 256 characters total. |
Oorspronklik is tekskarakters in rekenaars voorgestel wat greepwye data gebruik: elke drukbare karakter (en baie nie-druk- of "beheer"-karakters) is geïmplementeer met 'n enkele greep elk, wat in totaal 256 karakters toegelaat het. |
| However, globalization has created a need for computers to be able to accommodate many different alphabets (and other writing systems) from around the world in an interchangeable way. |
Globalisering het egter 'n behoefte geskep vir rekenaars om baie verskillende alfabette (en ander skryfstelsels) van regoor die wêreld op 'n uitruilbare manier te kan akkommodeer.
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| The old encodings in use included ASCII or EBCDIC, but it was apparent that they were not capable of handling all the different characters and alphabets from around the world. |
Die ou enkoderings wat gebruik is, het ASCII of EBCDIC ingesluit, maar dit was duidelik dat hulle nie in staat was om al die verskillende karakters en alfabette van regoor die wêreld te hanteer nie. |
| The solution to this problem was to create a set of "wide" 16-bit characters that would theoretically be able to accommodate most international language characters. |
Die oplossing vir hierdie probleem was om 'n stel "wye" 16-bis karakters te skep wat teoreties die meeste internasionale taalkarakters sou kon akkommodeer.
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| This new charset was first known as the Universal Character Set (UCS), and later standardized as Unicode. |
Hierdie nuwe karakterstel was eers bekend as die Universal Character Set (UCS), en later gestandaardiseer as Unicode. |
| However, after the first versions of the Unicode standard it became clear that 65,535 (216) characters would still not be enough to represent every character from all scripts in existence, so the standard was amended to add sixteen supplementary planes of 65,536 characters each, thus bringing the total number of representable code points to 1,114,112. |
Na die eerste weergawes van die Unicode-standaard het dit egter duidelik geword dat 65 535 (216) karakters steeds nie genoeg sou wees om elke karakter van alle bestaande skrifte voor te stel nie, dus is die standaard gewysig om sestien aanvullende vlakke van 65 536 karakters elk by te voeg, dus wat die totale aantal verteenwoordigbare kodepunte op 1 114 112 te staan bring.
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| To this date, less than 10% of that space is in use. |
Tot op hede is minder as 10% van daardie spasie in gebruik. |
