For a 20-character code, the Legal Entity Identifier generates a lot of passion.

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If you buy it at a retail store, you're getting only a 25-character code, which you use to activate the software after downloading it at home.

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So the group proposed assigning one code to each character with a common meaning in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, even though, in practice, the same ideogram is often written differently by different nationalities.

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The ZZ will be a single of double character country code.

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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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The code is separated into 740 computer instruction files that handle everything from dressing up a character in an almost infinite selection of outfits (a total of 10 to the 27th power, in fact) to flying through the city, as well as 25, 000 graphics files.

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