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Unicode is preferred to ASCII because it permits the inclusion of accents, scientific symbols and characters used in
other than English. The
format is a standard encoding that provides the most efficient means of encoding 16-bit
Unicode characters in cases where the majority of characters are in the ASCII range. Both
and the alternative
encoding are supported by all widely used operating systems and major applications
. UTF-8 was adopted is an IETF Internet Standard (
and has been for more than 15 years)it was initially adopted by IETF in 1996 to restrict some code values in 1998 and 2003). In 2008 UTF-8 became the most widely used for of encoding in web pages.
uses the
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Note that SNOMED CT does not use, or require use of, the Byte Order Mark (BOM) specified by the Unicode standard because all SNOMED CT release files use UTF-8. |
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