This fairly standard movie Web site offers character info, downloads and games.

CNN: Review: 'The Faculty' is nothing new, but still some fun

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 title character is an underground movie director (Stephen Dorff) dedicated to the demolition of standard studio pap.

NEWYORKER: Cecil B. Demented