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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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End-user defined character (EUDC)
Computer; Unicode standard
A character defined by an end user, using a private-use code point, to represent a character missing in a particular character encoding. These are common in East Asian implementations.
Enumerated property
Computer; Unicode standard
A property with a small set of named values. * As characters are added to the Unicode Standard, the set of values may need to be extended in the future, but enumerated properties have a relatively ...
User-defined character
Computer; Unicode standard
A character defined by an end user, using a private-use code point, to represent a character missing in a particular character encoding. These are common in East Asian implementations.
Explicit property value
Computer; Unicode standard
A value for an encoded character property that is explicitly associated with a code point in one of the data files of the Unicode Character Database.
Expanding canonical decomposition
Computer; Unicode standard
A canonical decomposition mapping from a character to a sequence of more than one character.
Escape sequence
Computer; Unicode standard
A sequence of bytes that is used for code extension. The first byte in the sequence is escape (hex 1B).
High-surrogate code unit
Computer; Unicode standard
A 16-bit code unit in the range D80016 to DBFF16, used in UTF-16 as the leading code unit of a surrogate pair.
