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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Iicore

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A subset of common-use CJK unified ideographs, defined as the fixed collection 370 IICore in ISO/IEC 10646. This subset contains 9,810 ideographs and is intended for common use in East Asian ...

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)

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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the entity that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), ...

Hypertext markup language (HTML)

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A text description language related to SGML; it mixes text format markup with plain text content to describe formatted text. HTML is ubiquitous as the source language for Web pages on the Internet. ...

Hiragana

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One of two standard syllabaries associated with the Japanese writing system. Hiragana syllables are typically used in the representation of native Japanese words and grammatical particles.

International components for unicode (ICU)

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An Open Source set of C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and software internationalisation support.

Ideograph

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A technical term for a Chinese character. In the Unicode Standard, sinograms are systematically referred to instead as CJK ideographs or Han ideographs.

Nonspacing mark (NSM)

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A combining character with the General Category of Nonspacing Mark (Mn) or Enclosing Mark (Me). * The position of a nonspacing mark in presentation depends on its base character. It generally does ...