Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) standard and published as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode contains a repertoire of more than 120,000 characters covering 129 modern and historic scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets. The standard consists of a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding method and set of standard character encodings, a set of reference data 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). As of June 2015[update], the most recent version is Unicode 8.0. The standard is maintained by the Unicode Consortium. COUNT 5
QSN1 What was Unicode published as? ANS1 The Unicode Standard QSN2 What was unicode developed in conjunction with? ANS2 Universal Coded Character Set (UCS) QSN3 What is the most recent version of Unicode? ANS3 Unicode 8.0 QSN4 Who maintains the Unicode Standard?  ANS4 Unicode Consortium QSN5 Unicode contains how many thousands of characters in its repertoire?  ANS5 120,000 characters