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PRIVATE CHARACTER EDITOR BUT NOT IN CHARACTER MAP CODE
UCS-2 uses a 16-bit code unit (two 8-bit bytes) for each character but cannot encode every character in the current Unicode standard. UTF-8 uses one byte for any ASCII characters, which have the same code values in both UTF-8 and ASCII encoding, and up to four bytes for other characters. The most commonly used encodings are UTF-8, UTF-16 and the now-obsolete UCS-2. Unicode can be implemented by different character encodings. The standard has been implemented in many recent technologies, including modern operating systems, XML, the Java programming language, and the Microsoft. Unicode's success at unifying character sets has led to its widespread and predominant use in the internationalization and localization of computer software. As of September 2012, the most recent version is Unicode 6.2. The standard consists in a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding methodology and set of standard character encodings, a set of reference data computer files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts). Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode contains a repertoire of more than 110,000 characters covering 100 scripts. Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.