Audible free book: http://www.audible.com/computerphile Representing symbols, characters and letters that are used worldwide is no mean feat, but unicode managed it - how? Tom Scott explains how the web has settled on a standard. More from Tom Scott: null and https://twitter.com/tomscott EXTRA BITS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBex3IDaUbU Data Security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SSSMi4X_mA http://www.facebook.com/computerphile https://twitter.com/computer_phile This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley. Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels