Database applications

Database applications

Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.

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Encoded character set

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A character set with an associated character encoding scheme. An encoded character set specifies the number (character code) that is assigned to each character.

The numeric representation of a character in a character set. For example, the code point of A in the ASCII character set is 0x41. The encoded value of a character is also called the code point of a ...

Globalisation

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The process of making software suitable for different linguistic and cultural environments. globalisation should not be confused with localization, which is the process of preparing software for use ...

Ideograph

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A symbol that represents an idea. Chinese is an example of an ideographic writing system.

ISO 8859

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A family of 8-bit encoded character sets. The most common one is ISO 8859-1 (also known as ISO Latin1), and is used for Western European languages.

ISO 14651

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A multilingual linguistic sort standard that is designed for almost all languages of the world.

ISO/IEC 10646

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A universal character set standard that defines the characters of most major scripts used in the modern world. In 1993, ISO adopted Unicode version 1.1 as ISO/IEC 10646-1:1993. ISO/IEC 10646 has two ...