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This presentation explains Unicode, UTF encodings, and surrogate pairs, which are essential for text handling in programming. It details how Unicode assigns unique code points to characters and describes various encoding systems like UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. The document emphasizes the importance of Unicode for globalization, multilingual applications, and security, particularly in the context of Dart programming.

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Unicode UTF PlainContent

This presentation explains Unicode, UTF encodings, and surrogate pairs, which are essential for text handling in programming. It details how Unicode assigns unique code points to characters and describes various encoding systems like UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. The document emphasizes the importance of Unicode for globalization, multilingual applications, and security, particularly in the context of Dart programming.

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Slide 1: Introduction

This presentation covers Unicode, UTF encodings, and surrogate pairs — fundamental concepts
for working with text in modern programming languages.

Slide 2: What is Unicode?

Unicode is a universal character encoding standard used to represent text in computers. It assigns
a unique number (code point) to every character across all languages.

Slide 3: Code Points

A code point is a number assigned to each character in Unicode. Example: 'A' = U+0041, '■' =
U+1F60A.

Slide 4: Encoding Systems

Encodings like UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 define how code points are stored in memory using
bytes.

Slide 5: UTF-8 Encoding

UTF-8 is the most common encoding on the web. It uses 1 to 4 bytes to represent a character.

Slide 6: UTF-16 and UTF-32

UTF-16 uses 2 or 4 bytes; UTF-32 uses a fixed 4 bytes per character. UTF-16 is common in
Windows & Dart.

Slide 7: What are Surrogate Pairs?

In UTF-16, characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane (above U+FFFF) are encoded using two
16-bit units called surrogate pairs.

Slide 8: Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)


The BMP includes characters from U+0000 to U+FFFF. Most common scripts reside here.

Slide 9: Dart & Unicode

Dart uses UTF-16 encoding internally. Characters like emojis are treated as surrogate pairs in
strings.

Slide 10: Real-World Example in Dart

Example:
final heart = '■';
print(heart.runes); // (128153)
print(heart.length); // 2

Slide 11: Why is Unicode Important?

- Globalization
- Multilingual apps
- Emoji and symbol support
- Security (avoiding spoofing)

Slide 12: Practical Use Cases

- Web development (HTML uses UTF-8)


- Mobile apps (Flutter/Dart)
- Databases
- APIs and internationalization

Slide 13: Visual Diagram

[BMP] --> UTF-16 (1 unit)


[Non-BMP] --> UTF-16 (2 units = surrogate pair)
U+1F600 ➝ D83D DE00

Slide 14: Common Issues

- Misinterpreted encoding
- Character corruption
- String length confusion (e.g. emojis)

Slide 15: Glossary

- Unicode: Universal character encoding


- Code Point: Numeric value like U+1F600
- UTF: Encoding form
- Surrogate Pair: Two units for one character

Slide 16: Security Aspects

Unicode can hide malicious input using homoglyphs (e.g. Cyrillic '■' vs Latin 'a').

Slide 17: Unicode in Dart Libraries

- 'characters' package for grapheme clusters


- 'intl' for localization
- .runes and .codeUnits for low-level access

Slide 18: Summary

• Unicode assigns a unique code point to every character


• UTF encodes these for storage
• Dart uses UTF-16 internally
• Surrogate pairs represent non-BMP characters

Slide 19: Questions & Discussion

Any questions?
You can ask about UTFs, Dart handling of Unicode, or encoding practices in web/mobile apps.

Slide 20: Thank You!

Presentation by [Your Name].


Prepared for Dart Programming Lab.

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