The feature includes a shortcut to a table with all Unicode/ASCII characters. Through this, the user should be able to search for a character, copy it and get information about a selected character.

Google Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web, Mark Davis, Google's senior international software architect, said in a blog post.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

The 1-byte system used in 8-bit ASCII can only represent up to 256 characters. Unicode uses a 2-byte system for each character, which means that more than 65,000 characters can be represented.