ANSI data versus Unicode data

There are a number of data formats used by computers. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has defined a format for characters using one byte of data for each character. This format is useful for European or Latin-based languages and for many near-Eastern languages. This format is generally called ANSI.

A more extensive data format using two or more bytes of data for each character is called Unicode. Using Unicode allows the representation of all written languages in the world.

The two versions of Adapt It differ in the internal representation of data. Adapt It Regular uses data storage which conforms to the ANSI standard. This standard supports Latin-based alphabets with some flexibility for specially designed characters. Adapt It Unicode uses the Unicode standard internally, thus permitting it to support Eastern and mid-Eastern languages.

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Adapt It (Regular) versus Adapt It Unicode