Unicode

Unicode is a standard for encoding the characters of just about every human language -- not to mention punctuation, dingbats, and chess pieces -- into a stream of numbers.

(Unicode also specifies a bunch of standards (notably UTF-8) for encoding that stream of numbers into a stream of bytes or words. This is where it gets complicated, but you generally don't have to worry about that.)

All the technologies used by Volity -- Jabber, SVG, Java -- support Unicode. This means that Volity has the ability to support clients and game interfaces in any language.

External Links

• [Unicode Home Page]