Glyph

Glyph

(1) An abstract form that represents one or more glyph images. (2) A synonym for glyph image. In displaying Unicode character data, one or more glyphs may be selected to depict a particular character. These glyphs are selected by a rendering engine during composition and layout processing.

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Industry/Domain: Computer; Software
Category: Unicode standard
Company: Unicode Consortium
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