[rookie1010]

Hi
What is a unicode application

[office politics]

from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/U/Unicode.html

Unicode

A standard for representing characters as integers. Unlike ASCII, which uses 7 bits for each character, Unicode uses 16 bits, which means that it can represent more than 65,000 unique characters. This is a bit of overkill for English and Western-European languages, but it is necessary for some other languages, such as Greek, Chinese and Japanese. Many analysts believe that as the software industry becomes increasingly global, Unicode will eventually supplant ASCII as the standard character coding format.

[Iron_Cross]

You're probably refering to an application that uses Unicode of other character sets (such as ASCII). I believe most applications use ASCII, but more and more are starting to use Unicode because of language support.

[rookie1010]

what do you mean by "application that uses Unicode of other character sets (such as ASCII). "

cn you please give me an example

[Iron_Cross]

There's not really an example, because to a human (assuming you speak english) you won't notice any difference between an application using Unicode text or ASCII text. You only see the difference when you view that application in another language.

When you program an application you have the option of using the Unicode character set (or any oher character set). A lot of applications used to use ASCII becauase they were more memory efficient since they only used 7 bits per character. But now, with applications being used in more than one country programmers are starting to have to use Unicode because they use 16 bits per character. Which means you can display more characters.