How does Unicode Work?
Unicode is designed to help programmers create software applications that work with any language and in any script Unicode avoids the time-consuming and costly task of separately developing the character set for each language and script, and maintaining similar, but separate source codes for each language and script. Instead, the programs are written in the vendor’s language of choice and then internationalized using Unicode. It is still necessary to “localize” the programs for each language, but that is done without affecting the source code. An aspect of localization is supporting the right to left writing pattern of some languages. In that regard, it is interesting to note that a computer system client that is used to create records that include both English and Hebrew or Arabic, must provide a “virtual keyboard” as an alternative to the standard English keyboard and must automatically change the direction of writing when the vernacular is being entered. Unicode support divides up i
