and up to 48- bit encoding ▪ Values 0 through 127 use 8-bit encoding and exactly match ASCII values ▪ Values from 128 through 2047 use 16-bit encoding and provide support for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and Arabic alphabets ▪ Values 2048 through 65535 use 24-bit encoding for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages that require large numbers of values