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Unicode standard
The Unicode standard is a character coding system designed to support the worldwide interchange, processing, and display of the written texts of the diverse languages and technical disciplines of the modern world.
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Unicode standard
Abugida
Computer; Unicode standard
A writing system in which consonants are indicated by the base letters that have an inherent vowel, and in which other vowels are indicated by additional distinguishing marks of some kind modifying ...
Diacritic
Computer; Unicode standard
(1) A mark applied or attached to a symbol to create a new symbol that represents a modified or new value. (2) A mark applied to a symbol irrespective of whether it changes the value of that symbol. ...
Algorithm
Computer; Unicode standard
A term used in a broad sense in the Unicode Standard, to mean the logical description of a process used to achieve a specified result. This does not require the actual procedure described in the ...
Alphabet
Computer; Unicode standard
A writing system in which both consonants and vowels are indicated. The term "alphabet" is derived from the first two letters of the Greek script: alpha, beta.
Acrophonic
Computer; Unicode standard
Denoting letters or numbers by the first letter of their name. For example, the Greek acrophonic numerals are variant forms of such initial letters.
Alphabetic property
Computer; Unicode standard
Informative property of the primary units of alphabets and/or syllabaries.
Character name
Computer; Unicode standard
A unique string used to identify each abstract character encoded in the standard. * The character names in the Unicode Standard match those of the English edition of ISO/IEC 10646. * Character names ...
