English

Unicode

Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”.

Formed from uni- + code

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos ‘one’

Proto-Italic *oinos ‘one’

Old Latin oinos

Latin unus ‘one’

English uni-

Latin caudex ‘the stock or stem of a tree’

Latin cōdex ‘tree trunk’

Old French code ‘system of law’

Middle English code ‘system of law’

English code

The story

Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”.

name A series of character encoding standards intended to support the characters used by a large number of the world’s languages.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.