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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Neutral character

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A character that can be written either right to left or left to right, depending on context.

Non-blocked pair

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A pair of characters in a coded character sequence, in which C is not blocked from A. * It is important for proper implementation of the Canonical Composition Algorithm to be aware that a ...

Noncharacter

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A code point that is permanently reserved for internal use and that should never be interchanged. Noncharacters consist of the values U+nFFFE and U+nFFFF (where n is from 0 to 1016) and the values ...

Non-overridable

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A characteristic of a Unicode character property that cannot be changed by a higher-level protocol.

Non-joiner

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An invisible character that affects the joining behaviour of surrounding characters.

Nekudot

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Marks that indicate vowels or other modifications of consonantal letters in Hebrew.

Unicode transformation format 8 (UTF-8)

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A multibyte encoding for text that represents each Unicode character with 1 to 4 bytes, and which is backward-compatible with ASCII. UTF-8 is the predominant form of Unicode in web pages. More ...