1 Garnet is Connecticut's state mineral. 2  Eubrontes is the state fossil, visit Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill to learn more. 3  The highest peak in Connecticut is Bear Mountain. 4  The highest elevation in Connecticut is the slope of Mount Frissel at 2380' (the peak, 2,453' is in MA).
Unicode is a character encoding standard that has widespread acceptance. Microsoft software uses Unicode at its core. Whether you realize it or not, you are using Unicode already! Basically, âcomputers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers.
Unicode, also known as UTF-8 or the Universal Alphabet is a an ordered set of over a million characters covering the majority of writing systems in the world. Unlike older systems, Unicode allows multiple writing systems to co-exist in one data file.