But the standard encompasses only about 65, 000 characters, far too few to include all Asian languages.

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Since machines understand text as a series of numbers, which users see on screen as letters or characters, they developed a standard called Unicode that assigns a unique code to every glyph, character or letter in the world's written languages.

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These books will be based on characters developed by Alan Moore in Watchmen, the 1986 graphic novel that became the standard by which all other graphic novels are now judged.

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Reiche explained how each different version of the Skylanders characters has a unique pose (for example Jet-Vac here is available as a standard figure or this light-core version).

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