Can somebody explain what a Unicode is?

[player5678]

I was working on a project and I saw the block . I was SUPER confused. I never ever heard of "Unicode". Can somebody help? I even saw a block and I thought Unicode 65 WAS "a".

If anybody can help, it's very much appreciated!

[bhenrique]

If you right click on that block and select 'help' you'll get the chart of unicode values. The main thing that you're noticing is that unicode of capital and lower-case letters are different.
48-57 = digits 0-9
65-90 = capital letters A-Z
97-122 = lower case letters

[warped_wart_wars]

Unicode is a way of representing characters in a computer. Do you know what ASCII is?

[mr_owlssssnap2]

I know what Unicode is, but what is ASCII?

[legoman3.14]

ASCII was a precursor to Unicode. It was created in the 1960's and inly included the standard alphabet plus some special symbols, but no non-english letters or emojis.

[mr_owlssssnap2]

God, last post 5 years?? Welcome back! ALso, oh.

[programmer_user]

@mr_owlssssnap2

God, last post 5 years??

5 months*

[mr_owlssssnap2]

oh

[slate_technologies]

Off topic

Welcome to the community!

[helicoptur]

Hi, welcome to the community!
Unicode is a way of representing characters in number form. For example, uppercase A is the 65th character in the Unicode database.
It can be pretty useful for tasks such as getting the entire alphabet quickly, e.g.:
[scratchblocks](map((unicode()as letter::operators)@addInput::grey ring)over(numbers from(65)to(90)::list)::list[/scratchblocks]