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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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Unicode standard
Default property value
Computer; Unicode standard
The value (or in some cases small set of values) of a property associated with unassigned code points or with encoded characters for which the property is irrelevant. * For example, for most Boolean ...
Defective combining character sequence
Computer; Unicode standard
A combining character sequence that does not start with a base character. * Defective combining character sequences occur when a sequence of combining characters appears at the start of a string or ...
Default ignorable
Computer; Unicode standard
Default ignorable code points are those that should be ignored by default in rendering unless explicitly supported. They have no visible glyph or advance width in and of themselves, although they may ...
Decomposition mapping
Computer; Unicode standard
A mapping from a character to a sequence of one or more characters that is a canonical or compatibility equivalent, and that is listed in the character names list. * Each character has at most one ...
Decomposition
Computer; Unicode standard
A sequence of one or more characters that is equivalent to a decomposable character. A full decomposition of a character sequence results from decomposing each of the characters in the sequence until ...
Demotic script
Computer; Unicode standard
(1) A script or a form of a script used to write the vernacular or common speech of some language community. (2) A simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing.
Deprecated
Computer; Unicode standard
Of a coded character or a character property, strongly discouraged from use. (Not the same as obsolete.)
