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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Rich text

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Also known as styled text. The result of adding information to plain text. Examples of information that can be added include font data, color, formatting information, phonetic annotations, ...

Primary composite

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A Canonical Decomposable Character (D69) which is not a Full Composition Exclusion. * For any given version of the Unicode Standard, the list of primary composites can be computed by extracting all ...

Plane

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A range of 256 contiguous Unicode code points, where the first code point is an integer multiple of 256. Two code points are in the same row if they share all but the last two hexadecimal digits.

Presentation form

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A ligature or variant glyph that has been encoded as a character for compatibility.

Precomposed hangul syllable

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A character that is either an LV_Syllable or an LVT_Syllable.

Points

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(1) The nonspacing vowels and other signs of written Hebrew. (2) A unit of measurement in typography.

Tonetic

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Refers to the surface, actual pitch realisation of tones in a tonal system. Tonetic values are what can be directly measured by tracking pitch contours in actual speech recordings. The term was ...