Boustrophedon

Boustrophedon

A pattern of writing seen in some ancient manuscripts and inscriptions, where alternate lines of text are laid out in opposite directions, and where right-to-left lines generally use glyphs mirrored from their left-to-right forms. Literally, "as the ox turns," referring to the ploughing of a field.

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boustrophedon

Internet; Internet communication

A method of writing that moves from left to right on the first line, but from right to left on the second line, and so on. Some printers, especially older ones, would follow this ...

boustrophedon

Printing & publishing; Publishing

An artistic presentation, either contained in a slipcase or portfolio, in which the page layout wanders like "oxen turning while plowing"; also called "snake" layout. Derived from ...

boustrophedon

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A pattern of writing seen in some ancient manuscripts and inscriptions, where alternate lines of text are laid out in opposite directions, and where right-to-left lines generally ...

boustrophedon

Literature; Poetry

Boustrophedon is an ancient method of writing (prose or poetry) in which the lines are inscribed alternately from right to left and from left to right. The interesting challenge ...

boustrophedonic

Language; Dictionaries

Relating to the boustrophedon made of writing.

boustrophedon

Language; Dictionaries

An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

Unicode encoding form

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A Unicode encoding form assigns each Unicode scalar value to a unique code unit sequence. The Unicode Standard defines three Unicode encoding forms: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. * ...

Unicode encoding scheme

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A specified byte serialization for a Unicode encoding form, including the specification of the handling of a byte order mark (BOM), if allowed. * For historical reasons, the ...

Unicode locale data markup language (LDML)

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

The XML specification for the exchange of locale data, defined by Unicode Technical Standard #35, "Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML)." (See also Unicode Common Locale ...

Unicode scalar value

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

ny Unicode code point except high-surrogate and low-surrogate code points. In other words, the ranges of integers 0 to D7FF16 and E00016 to 10FFFF16 inclusive. * As a result of ...

Unicode signature

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

An implicit marker to identify a file as containing Unicode text in a particular encoding form. An initial byte order mark (BOM) may be used as a Unicode signature.

Unicode Standard Annex (UAX)

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

An integral part of the Unicode Standard published as a separate document.

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