Unicode standard

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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BOPOMOFO

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An alphabetic script used primarily in the Republic of China (Taiwan) to write the sounds of Mandarin Chinese and some other dialects. Each symbol corresponds to the initial syllable sounds or the ...

accent mark

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A mark placed above, below, or to the side of a character to alter its phonetic value.

Octet

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(1) The minimal unit of addressable storage for a particular computer architecture. (2) An octet. Note that many early computer architectures used bytes larger than 8 bits in size, but the industry ...

Byte

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Boustrophedon

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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 ...

Binary ordered compression for Unicode (BOCU-1)

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A Unicode compression scheme that is MIME-compatible (directly usable for e-mail) and preserves binary order, which is useful for databases and sorted lists.

Boolean property

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A closed enumerated property whose set of values is limited to "true" and "false". * The presence or absence of the property is the essential information.