Web Hosting Glossary,Terms Letter: U

Terms Letter: U


Unicode
A 16-bit character set defined by ISO 10646. It maps digits to characters in languages around the world. Because 16 bits covers 32,768 codes, Unicode is large enough to include all the world's languages, with the exception of ideographic languages that have a different character for every concept, like Chinese.

Unix
A multi-processing, multi-user, family of operating systems that run on a variety of architectures. It is a basis for the Linux, which is one of the most commonly used Operating system for web hosting servers.

UPS
Uninterruptible…