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Database applications
Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.
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Case
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Refers to the condition of being uppercase or lowercase. For example, in a Latin alphabet, A is the uppercase glyph for a, the lowercase glyph.
Case conversion
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Changing a character from uppercase to lowercase or vice versa.
Case-insensitive linguistic sort
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A linguistic sort that uses information about base letters and diacritics but not case.
Character
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A character is an abstract element of text. A character is different from a glyph, which is a specific representation of a character. For example, the first character of the English upper-case ...
Character set
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A collection of elements that represent textual information for a specific language or group of languages. One language can be represented by more than one character set. A character set does not ...
Character string
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An ordered group of characters. A character string can also contain no characters. In this case, the character string is called a null string. The number of characters in a null string is 0 (zero).
Character classification
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Character classification information provides details about the type of character associated with each character code. For example, a character can uppercase, lowercase, punctuation, or control ...
